TWO PROSECUTORS
Sergei Loznitsa · 2025 · FRANCE/GERMANY/THE NETHERLANDS/LATVIA/ROMANIA/LITHUANIA · 118 min
Get tickets at Film ForumSoviet Union, 1937: A newly appointed, idealistic young prosecutor is spurred to meet a prison inmate after reading a desperate appeal scrawled in blood. The prosecutor recognizes this prisoner as a former law school professor—and is told a mortifying account of abuse and betrayal perpetrated by the secret police. He promises to report this injustice to the Attorney General in Moscow... but doesn’t realize the bureaucratically murderous trap he’s stepped in to. Based upon a long-unpublished novella by Soviet gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, TWO PROSECUTORS paints a hypnotic, chilling, blackly comic portrait of the mechanisms of Great Purge-era tyranny, with a potent contemporary resonance. JANUS FILMS IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES