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‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa’s Chilling Soviet Drama Is A Bleak Warning From History – Cannes Film Festival
‘Two Prosecutors’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s chilling Soviet drama is a bleak warning from history – Cannes Film Festival
Sergei Loznitsa ’s forensically objective, intellectually nuanced documentaries tend to stand in stark contrast to his fictional output; in films like My Joy, In the Fog and Donbass, the Ukrainian director is inclined to put his cards on the table, usually addressing his signature subject: the abject failure of the Russian state. Two Prosecutors follows in that tradition, being a very slow and very talky chamber piece that could be the most terrifying comedy that Aki Kaurismäki never made, or a Chaplin-esque horror film about the evils of bureaucracy in a world ruled by morons. Stepniak explains that the Soviet secret service, the NKVD, has infiltrated local government and are busily installing a kakistocracy, targeting older party members and taking them out with especially harsh punishments.
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