Discover Two Prosecutors presented by its director Sergei Loznitsa.
Historical drama by Sergei Loznitsa starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, and Anatoliy Belyy. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, and Lithuania. 1 hour 58 minutes.
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from prisoners wrongly accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them arrives at its destination: on the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. He struggles to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A seasoned and honest Bolshevik, the young prosecutor believes there is something amiss. His quest for justice leads him to the Prosecutor General's office in Moscow. At a time of Stalin's great purges, this is the plunge of one man into a totalitarian regime that doesn't speak its name...
In official competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Two Prosecutors won the François Chalais Prize.
A screening offered by Unipop from city to city, with the broadcast of a MEETING WITH DIRECTOR SERGEI LOZNITSA and NICOLAS WERTH, a historian specializing in the history of the Soviet Union.
14 Unipop previews or film conferences are scheduled from September 2025 to June 2026.
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from prisoners wrongly accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them arrives at its destination: on the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. He struggles to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A seasoned and honest Bolshevik, the young prosecutor believes there is something amiss. His quest for justice leads him to the Prosecutor General's office in Moscow. At a time of Stalin's great purges, this is the plunge of one man into a totalitarian regime that doesn't speak its name...
In official competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Two Prosecutors won the François Chalais Prize.
A screening offered by Unipop from city to city, with the broadcast of a MEETING WITH DIRECTOR SERGEI LOZNITSA and NICOLAS WERTH, a historian specializing in the history of the Soviet Union.
14 Unipop previews or film conferences are scheduled from September 2025 to June 2026.
