Two Prosecutors
Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic Soviet prosecutor (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) pushes past the jail’s leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik (Alexander Filippenko) condemned as a political undesirable. The young attorney, determined to expose this miscarriage of justice to the authorities in Moscow, soon finds his efforts stymied as an ever-tightening net of suspicion encircles his investigation. Set at the height of the Great Purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, the latest triumph from director Sergei Loznitsa is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and the matter-of-fact horrors of totalitarianism.
Criterion Premieres is a selection of new theatrical films presented on Blu-ray and DVD, released in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Sergei Loznitsa, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Sergei Loznitsa, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
Cast
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov
- Kornyev
- Alexander Filippenko
- Stepnyak/Pegleg
- Anatoli Beliy
- Vyshynsky
- Andris Keišs
- Duty assistant
- Vytautas Kaniušonis
- Prison governor
Credits
- Director
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Writer
- Sergei Loznitsa
- Based on a story by
- Georgy Demidov
- Director of photography
- Oleg Mutu
- Artistic director
- Kirill Shuvalov
- Production designer
- Jurij Grigorovič
- Production designer
- Aldis Meinerts
- Sound designer
- Vladimir Golovnitski
- Composer
- Christiaan Verbeek
- Casting
- Maria Choustova
- Costume designer
- Dorota Roqueplo
- Makeup artist
- Marly van de Wardt
- Editor
- Danielius Kokanauskis
- First assistant director
- Marek Cydorowicz
- Line producer
- Mārtiņš Eihe
- Producer
- Kevin Chneiweiss
Trailer for Two Prosecutors
