Two Prosecutors

Soviet 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 Based upon a long-unpublished novella by Soviet gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the Kafkaesque thriller Two Prosecutors paints a hypnotic, chilling, blackly comic portrait of the mechanisms of Stalin’s police state and Great Purge-era tyranny, with a potent contemporary resonance on the dangers of fascism. (Dir. by Sergei Loznitsa, 2026, Germany/France/Romania/Latvia/Netherlands/ Lithuania, in Russian/Ukrainian with English subtitles,118 mins., Not Rated)