Based on an unpublished novella by Soviet gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, writer/director Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors is set in the USSR of 1937. The film sees a young prosecutor become obsessed with freeing his former law school professor from a gulag, finding himself endangered by Stalin's forces in the process.
Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoli Beliy, Andris Keišs and Vytautas Kaniušonis star.
Two Prosecutors is in UK/ROI cinemas from March 27th.
Check out the trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
Soviet Union, 1937: A newly appointed, idealistic young prosecutor is spurred to meet a prison inmate after reading a desperate appeal scrawled in blood. The prosecutor recognizes this prisoner as a former law school professor—and is told a mortifying account of abuse and betrayal perpetrated by the secret police. He promises to report this injustice to the Attorney General in Moscow... but doesn’t realize the bureaucratically murderous trap he’s stepped in to.