Directed by Sergei Loznitsa, 2025, Romania/Latvia, Not Rated, 118 minutes, Subtitled

Set during Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937, Two Prosecutors follows Alexander Kornev (Aleksandr Kuznetsov), an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor who receives a letter from a political prisoner claiming torture and wrongful imprisonment. Determined to uncover the truth, Kornev descends into a bureaucratic labyrinth where justice and morality become increasingly impossible to separate. Based on the novella by Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film had its world premiere in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the François Chalais Prize. Widely recognized as one of the year’s strongest international releases, Sight & Sound praised it as “a meticulously crafted USSR-set period drama,” while Rotten Tomatoes described it as “a scalpel-precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy.

Munson Film Series is sponsored by M&T Bank and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.