Eastbourne Film Society
Two Prosecutors
A brilliant return to fiction filmmaking from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, Donbass), Two Prosecutors is a chilling, scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy.
This is a Russian language film and will be subtitled.
The screening on Saturday 6 June will be introduced by Mansel Stimpson, Chair of EFS
A brilliant return to fiction filmmaking from the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, Donbass), Two Prosecutors is a chilling, scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy.
Adapted from a novella by Soviet writer and political prisoner Georgy Demidov, it’s set in the Soviet Union in 1937, where Stalinism has reached its peak. An idealistic young prosecutor Kornyev (Alexander Kuznetsov) attempts to seek justice for a prisoner trying to expose corruption within the regime’s secret police, only to embark on a Kafka-like odyssey that increases the threat to his liberty with every step he takes.
Claustrophobic and austere, superbly performed, Two Prosecutors is a devastating account of life under totalitarianism.
“A petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection” ★★★★★ The Guardian