D. Sergei Loznitsa | Drama/ Historical film | 2025

Soviet Union, 1937.

Amid the Stalinist purges, thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Yet one – written in blood – reaches the desk of newly appointed prosecutor Alexander Kornyev.

A loyal Bolshevik with a sense of justice, Kornyev seeks out its author, a man brutalised by the secret police, the NKVD. Their meeting sparks a chain of repercussions that carries Kornyev deep into the machinery of Stalin’s regime.

Two Prosecutors is the joint highest scored film on the Screen International 2025 Cannes Jury
Grid and the winner of the Prix François Chalais.

★★★★★  It is a very disturbing parable of the insidious micro-processes of tyranny. Guardian