Horizons / Two Prosecutors / France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania 2025
The Soviet Union in the year 1937. Newly appointed local prosecutor Kornev receives a letter written by an unjustly imprisoned man in his own blood. Thanks to his stubborn persistence, the young dedicated communist manages to visit the prisoner, who is being harassed by agents of the secret police. He even makes it to the general prosecutor’s office in Moscow. But besides bringing him to the attention of the authorities, his activities also cause him to question his undying faith in the regime. The suspiciously silent corridors of Loznitsa’s adaptation of Georgy Demidov’s eponymous novel are filled with the ghosts of Gogol and Kafka, meticulously staged geometric camerawork, and above all the many symptoms of totalitarianism that seem to reappear in history over and over again.
Natalia Kozáková
118 min / Color, DCP
Director Sergei Loznitsa
/ Screenplay Sergei Loznitsa
/ Dir. of Photography Oleg Mutu
/ Music Christiaan Verbeek
/ Sound Vladimir Golovnitski
/ Editor Danielius Kokanauskis
/ Art Director Aldis Meinerts
/ Producer Kevin Chneiweiss
/ Production SBS Productions
/ Coproduction Looks Filmproduktionen GMBH, ATOMS & VOID, White Picture, Avanpost Media
/ Cast Alexander Kuznetsov, Anatoly Beliy, Vytautas Kaniušonis, Alexander Filippenko
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Sergei Loznitsa. Selected filmography: Blokada (2005, doc.), In the Fog (Im Nebel, 2012), Donbass (2018), The Kiev Trial (2022, doc.), Two Prosecutors (2025).
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