Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.
| Directing | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Director |
| Editing | Tamara Denisova | Editor |
| Writing | Vladimir Zazubrin | Writer |
| Writing | Jacques Baynac | Writer |
| Writing | André Milbet | Writer |
| Camera | Valeri Myulgaut | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Dmitri Pavlov | Music |
| Camera | Stanislav Okhapkin | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Anatoly Taborov | Additional Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tamara Frid | Makeup Artist |
