Two Prosecutors
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In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.
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Sergey Loznitsa's Stalin-era courtroom drama divides audiences between those who appreciate its chilling examination of authoritarianism and those who find themselves literally nodding off during its deliberately paced 20-minute dialogue scenes. While critics praise its breathtaking portrayal of how totalitarian systems corrupt idealistic individuals, many viewers struggle with the film's somnolent pacing, with multiple reviewers admitting they fell asleep - ironically mirroring the protagonist's own drowsiness.
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- May 15, 2025
I guess Stalin just hated virgins
djbevan613May 14, 2025A chilling reminder of how authoritarianism works at both the procedural and individual level. Sergey Loznitsa takes his time telling a simple story, letting the viewer take in the walls of silence surrounding a corrupted system. The twenty-or-so minute scenes or pure…
Brother BroSep 29, 2025Not good, not bad, just fall asleep for little bit in theatre.
molaaa - May 15, 2025
Looks like a painting and moves just as fast.
Joonatan ItkonenOct 2, 2025usually I'm rather averse from cumbersome historical cinema in grayish anti-colors and obvious symbolism. with Sergei Loznitsa and his Stalin era reckoning it's surprisingly different, which - apart from the mediocre festival programme letting me crave for better films -…
shookoneMay 14, 2025La Zone de Désintérêt
Martin_al3y - May 14, 2025
a test of patience (i failed)
torySep 25, 2025I have to be honest I had a hard time staying awake for this one. Festival fatigue etc etc. But as a movie about waiting, about how state bureaucracy weaponizes time itself, about how even the main character can hardly stay awake through it all, I felt that my nodding off…
Taylor WilliamsMay 15, 2025movie so bland even the main character fell asleep. twice.
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Metacritic
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.
Donald Clarke
The Irish Times
Mar 18, 2026
A slow cinema treat, Two Prosecutors rewards patience, with endless waiting rooms and antechambers both a limbo state and a last-chance saloon for Kornyev. It’s a haunting, mesmerising, pessimistic piece of work.
Phil de Semlyen
Time Out
Oct 7, 2025
The film is a satiric look at Stalinism and bureaucracy with shades of Kafka, Orwell, and Gogol.
Eli Friedberg
Slant Magazine
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