Two Prosecutors

France, Germany, The Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania | 2025 | 118 min

Language: Russian, Ukrainian

Subtitles: English

Suitable for audiences aged 12 and above

Director(s): Sergei Loznitsa

Script: Sergei Loznitsa based on the book by Georgi Demidov

Cast: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniusonis, Valentin Novopolskij

Production: SBS Productions

Distribution: Edge Entertainment

Drama

Masters History Society Abuse Critics Choice

Screenings:

Ukrainian director Sergey Loznitsa presents a historical drama that explores recent history through the lens of Stalin’s purges in the Soviet Union. Visually meticulous and politically urgent, the film is based on a story by Georgy Demidov and follows an idealistic young prosecutor who begins defending a wrongfully imprisoned and abused legal scholar.

The prosecutor plunges into a Kafkaesque journey into the heart of a totalitarian regime. As the story unfolds, it exposes the corruption within the NKVD, a state agency that operated primarily as a secret police force in the 1940s.

Rather than moralizing, Loznitsa adopts an analytical approach, allowing the viewer to witness how the system quietly crushes idealism. Two Prosecutors serves as a striking metaphor for the machinery of repression in modern-day Russia.

The film premiered in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival.

Timo Kuismin