Soviet Union, 1937. In a prison cell, thousands of letters from wrongly accused prisoners, seeking legal assistance, are burned. Against all odds, one of these letters reaches its destination: the office of Alexander Kornyev, a young, newly appointed local prosecutor.
Kornyev does everything in his power to meet the prisoner, the heavily guarded party veteran Stepnyak. As a devoted Bolshevik with a strong sense of integrity, he suspects that something is amiss. He decides to travel to Moscow to present the case to the Chief Prosecutor. But in his pursuit of justice, he soon encounters the brutal logic of a totalitarian regime.Two Prosecutors is a gripping political drama that takes us into the era of the Great Stalinist purges in Russia. Acclaimed director Sergei Loznitsa based the film on a novella by Georgy Demidov, a political prisoner who spent fourteen years in a gulag. The result is a suffocating portrait of tyrannical social control with powerful contemporary relevance. At a time when the independence of the judiciary and the value of truth are once.
