In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
Direction
Loznitsa's clinical, unblinking eye turns bureaucracy into nightmare.
Acting
Kuznetsov's face carries the weight of impossible choices.
Production
Every hallway feels like a trap; every document, a death warrant.
Director
Sergei Loznitsa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loznitsa adapted this from a novel by Vladimir Voinovich, himself a Soviet dissident exiled in 1980.
The real Vyshynsky was chief prosecutor at the Moscow Trials; showing him here is like putting Himmler in a courtroom drama.
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