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Ukraine’s Sergei Loznitsa on Cannes Competitor ‘Two Prosecutors’ and Budding Trump-Putin Alliance: Totalitarian Threat ‘Looming on the Horizon’
Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa discusses his Cannes competition title 'Two Prosecutors' and the growing threat of a Trump-Putin alliance.
It is a story, the director says, that finds chilling echoes in world events today, as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin clamps down on dissent amid his country’s ongoing war in Ukraine, and as U.S. President Donald Trump flaunts his own authoritarian impulses with reckless disregard for the rule of law. Despite the efforts of local party apparatchiks to impede his investigation, Kornyev (Aleskandr Kuznetsov) manages to interview the man in prison, where his battered body bears evidence of torture at the hands of the dreaded Soviet secret police, the NKVD. It is his third time competing for the Palme d’Or, following his feature debut, the road film “My Joy” (2010), and the riveting Russia-set drama “A Gentle Creature” (2017), with a series of highly regarded documentaries occupying the director in recent years.
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