‘Two Prosecutors’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Takes Us on a Darkly Absurdist Odyssey Through the Soviet Totalitarian Nightmare

The opening gate that ushers us into Sergei Loznitsa’s superbly poised, pitch-black “Two Prosecutors” is the kind of enormous, scarred metal gate behind which nothing good ever happens. It is the Soviet Union in 1937 and so, as a title informs us briskly, “the height of Stalin’s terror.” It is no spoiler to say that […]