Two Prosecutors

Two Prosecutors

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Country: Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, France

2025 | 118 min. | Russian
Subtitles: German, English

Cast_ Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy Screenplay_ Sergei Loznitsa Camera_ Oleg Mutu Producer_ Kevin Chneiweiss Rights_ Progress Filmverleih

One of the major films at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. An idealistic young prosecutor takes on the totalitarian regime of Josef Stalin. Thrilling.

The Soviet Union, 1937: Stalin’s purges are at their height. Against all odds, a letter from one of those wrongfully imprisoned finds its way to Alexander Kornev, a young, newly appointed public prosecutor. He does everything in his power to visit the man who wrote the letter in prison. When the man tells him about the conditions there, the staunch Bolshevik suspects an anti-communist conspiracy and seeks out the attorney general in Moscow.

A historical film of tremendous power that could hardly be more topical. In the style of Kafka, it reveals the absurdity and diabolical nature of a totalitarian regime.

Director

Sergeï Loznitsa was born in Belarus and grew up in Kyiv. He has made eleven documentaries, which have earned awards at various renowned international festivals, including Karlovy Vary and Toronto. In ›Maïdan‹, he showed us back in 2014 how Ukrainians were already engaged in a struggle for freedom that continues to this day. Among his feature films, ›In the Fog‹ (2012) was invited to compete at Cannes.

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