Registration REQUIRED by 12pm on October 23, 2026 in order to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Two Prosecutors. The post-screening Q&A with director Sergei Loznitsa will be moderated by Mark Lipovetsky.
Summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic state lawyer pushes past the leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik. The young attorney, determined to expose the miscarriages of justice that landed the man in confinement, finds the eye of the state turned on him instead, as an ever-tightening net encircles his investigation. Set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin’s police state, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism.
Sergei Loznitsa was born on September 5, 1964. He grew up in Kiev (Ukraine), and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. From 1987 to 1991, he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics, specializing in artificial intelligence research. In 1997, Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Sergei Loznitsa has been making films since 1996, and by now has directed 28 award-winning documentaries and five fiction films. Loznitsa’s feature debut My Joy (2010) premiered in the main competition at the Festival de Cannes, and was followed by the feature film In the Fog (2012), which was awarded FIPRESCI prize at the 65th Festival de Cannes. Sergei Loznitsa’s feature-length documentary Maidan (2014), the chronicles of the Ukrainian revolution, had its world premiere at a Séance Special of Festival de Cannes. His subsequent feature length documentaries The Event (2015), Austerlitz (2016), The Trial (2018), and State Funeral (2019) were presented at the Special Screenings of the Venice Film Festival. In 2021 Sergei received a Special Jury Prize of the L’Oeil D’Or Award in Cannes for his film Babi Yar. Context. His most recent film, Two Prosecutors (2025), had its world premiere in competition at the Festival de Cannes, and won the Prix François Chalais, which rewards films dedicated to the values of journalism.
