Two Prosecutors
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa | Theatrical Release: 19.02.2026 | France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania | 2025 | 118 Min. | Farbe | DF & OmU (Russisch) | DCP-2K | 1.33 | 5.1 | FSK tba
Soviet Union, 1937
Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornyev.
Kornyev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.
Sergei Loznitsa was born in 1964 in the city of Baranovitchi, USSR (now Belarus) and grew up in Kiev, Ukraine, graduating from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1987. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Sergei Loznitsa has been making films since 1996, and by now has directed 28 award-winning documentaries and 5 fiction films.
His latest film, "Two Prosecutors," premiered in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It was awarded the "Prix François Chalais".
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