Two Prosecutors

Name: Two Prosecutors
Genre: Drama, History
Released: March 20, 2026
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 85

2026

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Janus Films | Release Date: March 20, 2026 | Not Rated

Summary: Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, theSoviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornev. Kornev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of corrupt agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 117 min

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Liam Lacey

Mar 25, 2026

Historical hindsight lets us predict where this kind of train ride inevitably ends. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Mar 20, 2026

Mordantly comedic, Two Prosecutors is deliberately paced but makes a tightly conceived addition to Loznitsa’s work, which rides deep into the long, dark nights of Russian history with fiction, observational documentary and immersions in the Soviet archives. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Mar 26, 2026

There are many ways to portray authoritarianism, but Two Prosecutors is penetrating in its depiction of a society being slowly poisoned. The film might be too much to bear if it wasn’t so brilliantly conceived and executed. Read full review

Hannah Cronk

Sep 23, 2025

Two Prosecutors does not offer the audience easy answers or an emotional release; this restraint is exactly what gives it power. It’s a heavy film, one that is important and deserves to be seen. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Mar 25, 2026

It would be a mistake to seek too many lessons from the film. Its great achievement is in the creation of a timeless nowhere that is both drawn from history and independent of it. That is the absurdist ideal. Read full review

Eli Friedberg

Oct 7, 2025

The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol. Read full review

The Times Kevin Maher

May 20, 2025

His legal ambitions are thus stymied at every turn by missed appointments and disinterested power players, resulting in glacial narrative pacing and a miserably predictable outcome. It is, at best, vaguely Kafka-esque but also, for the viewer, quite the trial. Read full review

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