Two Prosecutors

2025 1h 58m RU

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7.1

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★6.9TMDB · 49🍅98%Rotten Tomatoes●85Metacritic★7.1IMDB · 2,944

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Synopsis

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In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Kornev
Aleksandr Filippenko
Stepniak / Pegleg
Anatoliy Belyy
Vyshynsky
Andris Keišs
Duty Assistant
Vytautas Kaniušonis
Prison Director
Valentin Novopolskij
Chatterbox
Ivgeny Terletsky
Old Prisoner
Orests Paško
Corridor Guard

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Writers: Sergei Loznitsa
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian
Countries: France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania

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ERA

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Released last year.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Russian, Ukrainian.

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WORLD

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International production across 6 countries: France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, shot by Oleg Mutu. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Christiaan Verbeek. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Danielius Kokanauskis shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Aleksandr Kuznetsov and Aleksandr Filippenko and Anatoliy Belyy carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt35521200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sergei Loznitsa directs. Oleg Mutu behind the camera. Christiaan Verbeek scores. Danielius Kokanauskis cuts. Produced in France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania. Dialogue in Russian, Ukrainian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released last year.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Russian, Ukrainian.
3International production across 6 countries: France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania.
4Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, shot by Oleg Mutu. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Christiaan Verbeek. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Danielius Kokanauskis shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Aleksandr Kuznetsov and Aleksandr Filippenko and Anatoliy Belyy carry the top of the cast.
8IMDB entry: tt35521200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 49 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "based on novel or book", "based on true story", "joseph stalin", "prosecutor".

The technical file

Cinematography: Oleg Mutu
Original score: Christiaan Verbeek
Editing: Danielius Kokanauskis
Production design: Aldis Meinerts
Runtime: 118 min · 1h 58m
Status: Released
Original language: RU
IMDB: Two Prosecutors (2025)
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 85/100
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 2,944 votes
US box office: $115,168

Awards

2 wins & 9 nominations total

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What people are saying

Brent Marchant2025-10-27
★ 1/10
Trust and idealism are certainly noble qualities, but, when taken too far, they can easily morph into naivete and gullibility. And those qualities, in turn, can carry seriously devastating consequences. But what I have difficulty understanding is why anyone would legitimately want to make a film showcasing such an unengaging, uninspired outcome. Is it supposed to be taken as a cautionary tale? A tragedy of epic proportions? A case study of the consequences that come with not waking up in time to smell the coffee? What’s more, circumstances like this are made even worse when the victim in such a scenario can clearly foresee what lies ahead but still falls prey to it anyway. Is this supposed to enlighten us somehow? That’s hard to fathom when we can’t help but see what’s coming (even if the protagonist is unable or unwilling to do so). If you can imagine that, then you have a pretty good idea of what’s behind this patently obvious historical drama from writer-director Sergey Loznitsa. Set in the USSR in 1937 at the height of Josef Stalin’s political tyranny, the picture tells the story of an idealistic young prosecutor (Alexander Kuznetsov) responsible for investigating the complaints of everyday comrades whose “rights” (if they can even be called that) have been violated by the state, particularly operatives of the NKVD, the nefarious Soviet secret police. When he learns that unspeakable abuses have been rampantly doled out against longtime loyal Communist Party members – many of them older, diehard Bolsheviks who truly believed in and fought for the promises of Vladimir Lenin’s revolutionary ideology – he courageously takes up their cause, it being one that he, as a devoted Party himself, firmly supports. And, given the scope of what has been unfolding, he’s well aware of the perilous risk to his own well-being but forges ahead anyway, only to be surprised by the fate that awaits him. But how seriously can this be taken in light of the spot-on suspicions he harbors about what could lie ahead? Frankly, this is where the picture turns wholly implausible; it’s devoid of virtually all meaningful credibility and does little to foster genuine sympathy for its woefully naïve protagonist. Moreover, if this weren’t bad enough, the story plays out primarily through a series of long-winded, belabored conversations, dialogues connected by a series of mundane, exceedingly dull transitionary scenes that play out in tedious, painstaking, slow-motion detail. In short, there are no surprises here, and what does unfold on screen makes watching paint dry look captivating by comparison. Sadly, whatever honorable heroics are meant to be celebrated here are buried under a morass of boredom, predictability and an utter lack of common sense, leaving one wonder what the filmmaker was going for here in the first place.

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