| International Standard Book Number |
9798886074864
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| Title Statement |
Two prosecutors (DVD) (2025) / an SBS production in coproduction with LOOKSfilm, Atoms & Void, White Picture [and others] ; produced by Kevin Chneiweiss ; written and directed by Sergey Loznitsa.
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| Country of Producing Entity |
Germany
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet (4 unnumbered pages (folded) : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
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| Series Statement |
Criterion collection
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| General Note |
Based on the novel Two prosecutors by Georgy Demidov.
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| General Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2025.
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| General Note |
Special features: Meet the filmmakers: Sergei Loznitsa, a criterion Channel original interview; trailer; notes by critic Beatrice Loayza.
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| General Note |
Wide screen.
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| Creation/Production Credits Note |
Music by Christiaan Verbeek ; director of photography, Oleg Mutu.
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| Participant or Performer Note |
Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy.
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| Summary, Etc. |
Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic Soviet prosecutor pushes past the jail's leery authorities to interview elderly, broken-down Bolshevik condemned as a political undesirable. The young attorney, determined to expose this miscarriage of justice to the authorities in Moscow, soon finds his efforts stymied as an ever-tightening net of suspicion encircles his investigation. Set at the height of the Great Purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin's police state, the latest triumph from director Sergei Loznitsa is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and the matter-of-fact horrors of totalitarianism.
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| Target Audience Note |
Rating: R.
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| System Details Note |
DVD, NTSC region 1; full screen (1.33:1); Dolby Audio 5.1 surround; [color].
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| Language note |
Russian & Ukrainian dialogue; English subtitles.
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| Subject-Corporate Name |
Soviet Union. Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennikh del Drama.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
DVD.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political corruption Drama.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Lawyers Drama.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Soviet Union Drama.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction films.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical films.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Legal films.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Loznitsa, Sergei, 1964- screenwriter, film director.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Kuznetsov, Aleksandr, 1992- actor.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Filippenko, Alexander, actor.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
SBS Films (Firm), production company.
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| Added Entry, Corporate Name |
Atoms & Void (Firm), production company.
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