Sergei Loznitsa discusses his 2025 political thriller Two Prosecutors, adapted from a 1969 novella by Georgy Demidov, a Soviet physicist imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp. Set in 1937 Bryansk during Stalin’s purges, the film follows young prosecutor Kornev as he uncovers the NKVD’s systematic torture and forced confessions of loyal party members. Loznitsa frames the narrative as an inquiry into state manipulation of truth and institutional complicity, echoing his earlier documentary The Trial (2018) about the 1937 Industrial Party Trial. Shot by cinematographer Oleg Mutu in Academy ratio with static compositions, the film creates claustrophobic dread while positioning idealistic individuals against totalitarian machinery. Loznitsa’s genealogical approach collapses temporal distance, presenting twentieth-century Soviet barbarities as continuous with contemporary late-stage capitalism, treating history as perpetually contested rather than archived.
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