Cannes 2025: “Two Prosecutors,” Sergei Loznitsa and the Relentless Totalitarian Machine
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Young prosecutor Alexander Kornev (Aleksandr Kusnetzov, right) meets with Prosecutor General Vyshinsky (Anatoliy Belyy). SBS Productions
Echoing the festival's opening ceremony, which called on artists to defend democracy, the Ukrainian filmmaker presented a chilling and grim film on the first day of competition, which pits a young, idealistic prosecutor against Stalinist terror.
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