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Two Prosecutors
Directed by
Sergei Loznitsa
2026
1h 58m
Drama
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History
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7.1
97%
6.8
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In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.
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Cast of Two Prosecutors
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Kornev
Aleksandr Filippenko
Stepniak and the Man with the Wooden Leg
Anatoliy Belyy
Vyshynsky
Andris Keišs
The Deputy
Vytautas Kaniušonis
Prison Director
Valentin Novopolskij
Chatterbox
Ivgeny Terletsky
Old Prisoner
Orests Paško
Corridor Guard
Valerijus Jevsejevas
Sergei Loznitsa
Director / Writer / Producer
Georgy Demidov
Novel
Kevin Chneiweiss
Producer
Maria Choustova
Co-Producer
Regina Bouchehri
Co-Producer
Gunnar Dedio
Co-Producer
Viola Fügen
Co-Producer
Alise Ģelze
Co-Producer
Uljana Kim
Co-Producer
Vlad Radulescu
Co-Producer
Birgit Rasch
Co-Producer
Two Prosecutors Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
What's most startling about the film for me, however, is not the Russian history and filmmaking per se, but the relevance Two Prosecutors has to our present day.
InSession Film
John Dotson
For many, the Two Prosecutors' conclusion will make or break the entire experience. It's an ending that intentionally frustrates the viewer. However, upon rewatch, the seeds were planted all along.
Film Speak
Maxance Vincent
The predictability of Loznitsa's film might hamper the final moment where Kornyev's fate is sealed, but it still doesn't make the movie any less impactful.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It sheds light on history so we don't forget it but do learn from it. It's the work of a true artist.
Associated Press
Jake Coyle
Beyond any direct lines of connection between past and present, "Two Prosecutors" has the neatness and timelessness of a parable, one that Gogol might have written, and one that could resonate in any era where the naively courageous challenge fascism.
Los Angeles Times
Tim Grierson
Many viewers will correctly predict this young lawyer's fate, but Loznitsa isn't after plot twists; he's more interested in the gut punch of the inevitable.
Film Festival Today
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
Firmly rooted in the specificity of the situation, "Two Prosecutors" tells a universal story that is as relevant today as in 1937.
Movie Brief
Michael Nordine
It's impossible not to root for - and worry about - Kornyev as he endeavors to do the right thing.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Loznitsa turns that sentiment into a stylistic philosophy in Two Prosecutors, creating a world where both physical and spiritual imprisonment are woven into the very fabric of the picture.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
It's an unapologetically political [story] as well, and its resonances should-I'd say need to-ring some bells here in the ostensible land of the free.
Wall Street Journal
Zachary Barnes
If the movie's just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it's also soberly convincing. With grim history as his guide, Mr. Loznitsa has crafted a compressed yet potent work of cinema.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
Violence may be kept largely offscreen in this particular story, but it's written on the bodies of the broken prisoners. Here, fear lurks behind every other door.
Slant Magazine
Eli Friedberg
The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.
NPR
Justin Chang
You know it can't end well, but you never know exactly how it will end -- or at what point this meticulously constructed steel trap of a movie will snap coldly, decisively shut.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Two Prosecutors is a bleak shout of futility that's also strangely, bitterly funny.
TheWrap
Steve Pond
You could say that "Two Prosecutors" is implacably infuriating, quietly shining a light on the gears of totalitarianism that designed to grind up anyone they designate an enemy of the state.
RogerEbert.com
Ben Kenigsberg
The casting of the clean-cut, presentable Kuznetsov-the sole actor who walks through the movie without the bearing of the walking dead-gives it a certain charge.
IndieWire
David Katz
Ultimately, "Two Prosecutors"' is like a perfect 50-50 cocktail of dread and dialogue, the vodka being whichever you'd choose, making the inevitable feel capable of deferment, before it strikes more devastatingly than you'd even think.
Variety
Jessica Kiang
Like reading a slim paperback classic by Camus or Kafka or Orwell, where the pages are spotted with age, but the insights remain painfully, vividly fresh.
The Hollywood Reporter
Jordan Mintzer
Impeccably directed and impressively acted, this slow-burn story of political injustice is filled to the brim with atmosphere -- specifically the stifling, claustrophobic atmosphere of the U.S.S.R. at the height of Stalin's Great Purge.
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