Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors is a film about a young attorney who believes in the rule of law. He lives, unfortunately, at one of the worst possible times and places for such idealism: during Josef Stalin's purges of the 1930s.
Yet the story's most deluded idealist isn't this fledgling prosecutor, a man naive enough to be shocked when he learns that an innocent prisoner is being tortured. It's the prisoner himself, who thinks Stalin might step in and fix things if only he knew what the local secret police have been up to. Even a Bolshevik can believe a version of Good czar, bad boyars.
