Sergei Loznitsa, who lives in the Netherlands, presents his new film "Two Prosecutors" at the Cannes Film Festival. This drama film, based on a story by Georgy Demidov, is set in 1937 during the Stalinist terror in the Soviet Union. The film follows young prosecutor Alexander Kornyev in his confrontation with a wrongfully imprisoned man and his subsequent journey to Moscow, where he discovers the distorted reality of guilt and innocence. Loznitsa emphasizes that the film is a continuation of his earlier work and reflects on Stalinism in contemporary Russia.

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