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,…

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1971 novella ‘Piknik na obochine’ (‘Roadside Picnic’) as well as Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 film adaptation (‘Stalker’), ‘Tretya planeta’ tells the story of a…

Young soldiers of the Soviet Internal Troops are brutally bullied during their time of Dedovshchina(hazing). The plot unfolds mostly on board of a prisoner transport rail car guarded by a…