TWO PROSECUTORS (Not yet classified)
PART OF THE STAGE AND SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL
Fresh from the Cannes Film Festival, where it tied for top spot on the Screen International Critics’ Jury Grid.
“Impeccably directed and impressively acted, this slow-burn story of political injustice is filled to the brim with atmosphere.”
The Hollywood Reporter
“Two Prosecutors is crisply fable-like in construction. An impressive addition to the director’s always insightful work.”
Screen International
Two Prosecutors is the latest masterwork from acclaimed Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (In the Fog, Austerlitz).
Soviet Union, 1937
Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornyev.
Kornyev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play.
His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.
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