Two Prosecutors(2026)

1h 58m

Release Date: Mar 20, 2026 | Limited

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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Original Release | Mar 20, 2026

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Director & Top Cast

Sergey Loznitsa
Director

Alexander Kuznetsov
Kornev

Anatoliy Beliy
Andrey Vyshinsky

Aleksandr Filippenko
Stepniak

Vytautas Kaniusonis
Prison Governor

Andris Keiss
Duty assistant

Valentin Novopolskij

Chatterbox

Orest Pasko

Corridor Warder

Lukas Petrauskas

Young prosecutor

Sergey Podymin

KGB officer

Ivgeny Terletsky

Old Prisoner

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: France,Germany,Netherlands,Latvia,Romania,Lithuania,Ukraine

Language: Russian,Ukrainian,English

Summaries

Storyline

In 1937, during Stalin's Great Purges, prisoners' letters pleading innocence are routinely burned in Soviet prisons. By chance, one letter survives and reaches Alexander Kornev, a young, idealistic prosecutor. It comes from Stepniak, a loyal party member unjustly imprisoned. Moved by the letter, Kornev tries to reopen the case, but quickly encounters the fear, silence, and rigid bureaucracy of a system built to crush dissent. Determined to seek justice, he travels to Moscow to bring the matter before higher authorities, only to discover that the entire judicial machine is designed not to correct mistakes, but to erase them. His journey becomes a stark confrontation with a totalitarian system where truth is dangerous and innocence offers no protection. — M. Chevrier

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Two Prosecutors (2026) is a historical drama set in 1937 during Stalin's Great Purge, following idealistic young Soviet prosecutor Kornyev (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) who discovers a prisoner's blood-written letter exposing NKVD corruption.