The world premiere of TWO PROSECUTORS by Sergei Loznitsa

will take place in the main competition of the

78th Cannes Film Festival!

 

The world premiere of Sergei Loznitsa’s 5 th fiction film, TWO PROSECUTORS, will take place at the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film will compete for the Palm D’Or. Based on a novel by Georgy Demidov, the action takes place in the USSR during Stalin’s great terror. It’s a fable about a young man challenging a system of mass extermination and embarking on a quest for justice.
 

“It is impossible to comprehend contemporary Russia without the knowledge about gulag. It is impossible to comprehend the nature of the evil, which has propagated and blossomed on that territory, not having the knowledge about its roots and origins… Today, the entire world is horrified by the horrendous crimes being committed by the Russian invaders in Ukraine. However, for those of us who have studied Soviet and post-Soviet history, these crimes seem to be predetermined and almost inevitable. It is time to look straight into the eyes of the Soviet monster. It has to be understood in order to be defeated,”– says Sergei Loznitsa.
 

The film is produced by SBS Productions (France) in co-production with ATOMS & VOID (The Netherlands), Looksfilm (Germany), White Picture (Latvia), AVANPOST (Romania) and Studio Uljana Kim (Lithuania).
 

Scriptwriter & director: Sergei Loznitsa
Director of photography: Oleg Mutu
Composer : Christiaan Verbeek
Starring : Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Anatoli Beliy, Alexander Filippenko
Producers : Kevin Chneiweiss, Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova, Gunnar Dedio, Alise
Gelze, Vlad Radulescu, Uljana Kim.
 

France/The Netherlands/Germany/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania
115 min, colour, 5.1
 

SYNOPSIS

USSR, 1937. In a dark prison cell, a man burns piles of letters from innocent prisoners. These desperate messages - scrawled on scraps of paper, tobacco wrappers, or written in blood - are meant to be destroyed without a trace. Yet, against all odds, one letter survives: a plea for help sent to the local prosecutor’s office. A young, principled prosecutor receives the letter and decides to investigate. Convinced of the prisoner’s innocence, he begins a determined effort to challenge the local NKVD secret police. His search for justice leads him to Moscow, where he seeks the support of the Prosecutor General of the Soviet Union. Set during Stalin’s Great Purge, Two Prosecutors follows the struggle of a man challenging a system of mass extermination, as he risks everything to seek justice. Based on a novel by Georgy Demidov.