Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]
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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
- Post author By Jeremy Clarke
- Post date March 26 2026
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