Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival with the gripping Soviet period drama “Two Prosecutors,” marking the first time in nearly a decade that the celebrated filmmaker will compete for the Palme d’Or. The film world premieres in Competition on May 14.
Set in a provincial Soviet town in 1937, at the height of Josef Stalin’s reign of terror, Loznitsa’s latest is a harrowing portrait of one man’s powerlessness when confronting the ruthless machinery of a brutal, capricious state.
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