Two Prosecutors

The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.
-- Eli Friedberg, Slant

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Two Prosecutors

The latest film from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa MY JOY) is a scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy. Adapting a novel by Soviet writer and political prisoner Georgy Demidov, set in the Soviet Union in 1937, Loznitsa follows the attempts of an idealistic government-appointed prosecutor (Alexander Kuznetsov) to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer who has been jailed and tortured without evidence of wrongdoing. As he gradually comes to realize, the lack of cause for the man’s imprisonment is hardly unique under Stalin’s regime, and the neophyte lawyer may be putting himself in danger by exposing his own moral righteousness.

Loznitsa constructs his story with a patient yet unmistakable sense of mounting dread, focusing on the devastating minutiae that allows fascism to function in our world.
Not Rated
Genre
Crime, Drama, History, Justice
Web Site
https://www.janusf…
Runtime
118
Language
Russian, Ukrainian
Director
Sergey Loznitsa
Producer
Kevin Chneiweiss
Writer(s)
Georgy Demidov, Sergey Loznitsa
Cast
Alexander Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Beliy, Dmitrijus Denisiukas

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