France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania
- 2025
Estreno nacional
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Kornyev. Kornyev does his utmost to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the secret police, the NKVD. A dedicated Bolshevik of integrity, the young prosecutor suspects foul play. His quest for justice will take him all the way to the office of the Attorney General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the plunge of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear said name.
Sergei Loznitsa
He was born in 1964 and grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine. He graduated in Applied Mathematics from the Kyiv Polytechnic before studying Directing at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 25 award-winning documentaries and 4 fiction films. He made his feature film debut with ‘My Joy’ (2010), premiered in the Official Section of the Cannes Film Festival, where he would return with ‘In the Fog’ (2012, Fipresci Award), ‘Maidan’ (2014), ‘A Gentle Creature’ (2017), ‘Donbass’ (2018, best director in Un Certain Regard), ‘Babi Yar. Context’ (2021, special mention of the Golden Eye Award), ‘The Natural History of Destruction’ (2022) and ‘The Invasion’ (2024). His non-fiction feature films ‘The Event’ (2015), ‘Austerlitz’ (2016), ‘The Trial’ (2018) and ‘State Funeral’ (2019) were presented at the Special Screenings of the Venice Film Festival. In 2013 he founded a film production company, Atoms & Void.
DIRECTOR
Sergei Loznitsa
SCREENPLAY
Sergei Loznitsa
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Oleg Mutu
EDITOR
Danielius Kokanauskis
SOUND
Vladimir Golovnitski
MUSIC
Christiaan Verbeek
PRODUCTION
Kevin Chneiweiss, Regina Bouchehri, Gunnar Dedio, Birgit Rasch, Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova, Alise Ģelze, Vlad Rădulescu, Uljana Kim, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SBS, LOOKSfilm, Atoms & Void, White Picture, Avanpost Media, Studio Uljana Kim, The Match Factory, RBB
CAST
Aleksandr Kuznetsøv, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis, Valentin Novopolskij, Orest Pasko, Lukas Petrauskas
RUNNING TIME
118 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
VERSION
V.O. Russian with Spanish and English subtitles.
COUNTRY
France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania
Kevin Chneiweiss, Regina Bouchehri, Gunnar Dedio, Birgit Rasch, Sergei Loznitsa, Maria Choustova, Alise Ģelze, Vlad Rădulescu, Uljana Kim, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Cécile Tollu-Polonowski
PRODUCTION COMPANY
SBS, LOOKSfilm, Atoms & Void, White Picture, Avanpost Media, Studio Uljana Kim, The Match Factory, RBB
CAST
Aleksandr Kuznetsøv, Alexander Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis, Valentin Novopolskij, Orest Pasko, Lukas Petrauskas
RUNNING TIME
118 min.
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
Color
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2025
VERSION
V.O. Russian with Spanish and English subtitles.
COUNTRY
France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia, Romania, Lithuania
