Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors - "It Would Be Great if People From that Time Could Watch My Film"

The Cannes International Film Festival hosted the world premiere of Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa's film Two Prosecutors. The film presented in the festival's competition program will compete for the Palme d'Or.

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors - "It would be great if people from that time could watch my film"

CANNES 2025: The Ukranian-born director discusses the novella that inspired his film, as well as the universal and the particular, the consequences of the Soviet era, and hope

Two Prosecutors — Sergei Loznitsa [Cannes '25 Review]

Ever since his debut fiction film My Joy (2010) premiered in the main competition of Cannes, Sergei Loznitsa has been a repeat visitor to the Croisette. Two Prosecutors, his first fiction feature since 2018’s Donbass, marks the tenth time the Belarussian-born director has been included in the festival’s lineup. Unfortunately, what could have been a [...] The post Two Prosecutors — Sergei Loznitsa [Cannes ’25 Review] appeared first on In Review O…

“Two Prosecutors” is a film about Russia, where “nothing has changed” for a very long time. This film by a Ukrainian director received great acclaim from film critics at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. With this film, Sergei Loznitsa draws a parallel between the Soviet Union of the 1930s and today’s Russia. “Nothing has changed in Russia since then. And we didn’t realize it. 20 or 30 years ago, when the Soviet Union collapsed, we all dreamed o…