1937: When a prisoner’s letter escapes destruction, idealistic prosecutor Kornev uncovers NKVD corruption. His pursuit of justice in Stalin's USSR becomes a dangerous journey into the heart of a system devouring its own.
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“In Two Prosecutors, perhaps out of deference to the source text, Loznitsa plays it straighter than in either of those titles [A Gentle Creature and Donbass] and the result is much stronger for it, as though he has met some self-set challenge to see how efficiently a rigorously formal aesthetic can evoke the pervading, dehumanizing horrors of living under totalitarian control. It gives the experience of watching Two Prosectors an almost tactile literariness, like reading a slim paperback classic by Camus or Kafka or Orwell, where the pages are spotted with age, but the insights remain painfully, vividly fresh.”
Jordan Mintzer1
- 1Jordan Mintzer, “‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Explores the Stifling Climate of Stalin-Era Russia in a Legal Drama That Burns Slowly but Brightly,” The Hollywood Reporter, 14 May 2025.