Films

Renowned Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa (Donbass, In the Fog) adapts Georgy Demidov’s long-suppressed novella into a gripping tale set during the Great Purges of 1937. When thousands of desperate letters from detainees are destroyed, one miraculously reaches Alexander Kornyev (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), a newly appointed local prosecutor.

Determined to investigate, Kornyev seeks out a prisoner targeted by the secret police, convinced that truth and fairness can prevail. But as he ventures deeper into the corridors of power, he discovers a world where justice is impossible and loyalty itself becomes a liability. Shot in stark Academy Ratio and infused with echoes of Kafka and Gogol, Two Prosecutors is both an intimate chamber drama and a chilling portrait of state terror’s corrosive grip.

“A bleak shout of futility that’s also strangely, bitterly funny.”
-Stephanie Zacharek, Time Magazine

“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.”
-Jesica Kiang, Variety