The Great Purge was a period in the history of the Soviet Union where Stalin eliminated the majority of the "Old Bolsheviks" ...

You don’t need to wield a hammer and sickle to feel the weight of Soviet tyranny hanging over Two Prosecutors, a solemn Stalin-era drama from Sergei Loznitsa that doubles as a metaphor for the kind of ...

Typically, you’d say that people are haunted by things from the past. But Sergei Loznitsa is a director whose films are often set in the past but haunted by the present. That has everything to do with ...

Janus Films has picked up the North American rights to Sergei Loznitsa’s Cannes competition drama Two Prosecutors. The Ukrainian director’s Soviet-era thriller set during Stalin’s Great Purge in 1937 ...

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Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s feature follows a law school grad taking on corruption in the Soviet system and paying the consequences. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Janus Films has ...