'Two Prosecutors' review: Timely lessons in authoritarianism from another era

‘Two Prosecutors’ review: Timely lessons in authoritarianism from another era

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> In Sergei Loznitsa’s new drama, stairwells are sinister. Hallways hum with invisible menace. The primary colors are drab grays and ugly browns. Faces are unsmiling. And the doors are always locked. There are many ways to portray authoritarianism, but “Two Prosecutors” is penetrating in its depiction of a society being slowly poisoned. The…

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A Bracing Tale of Stalinist Terror

Earlier in his career, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa alternated between documentaries and narrative features. The documentaries tended to be distanced, austere, observational; those that focused on the past (such as 2005’s Blockade, about the WWII siege of Leningrad, or 2019’s State Funeral, about the funeral of Stalin) were often built entirely from archival footage….

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