title: Checkpoint (1998 film)
text: # Checkpoint (1998 film)
  
  Checkpoint (Russian: Блокпост) is a 1998 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The film takes place in 1996 in the North Caucasus, during the First Chechen War. In one mountain aul, a landmine exploded and kills a disabled child. Now the platoon that carried out the incident was sent to a checkpoint to rescue the soldiers from the revenge of the villagers.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Aleksandr Ivanov as Boeing
  * Andrey Krasko as Iliych
  * Aleksey Buldakov as General
  * Zoya Buryak as Detective
  * Sergei Guslinsky as Lieutenant Borya
  * Roman Romantsov as Bones
  * Kirill Ulyanov as Professor
  * Ivan Kuzmin as Ash
  * Denis Kirillov as Skag
  * Egor Tomoshevskiy as Fingers
  