The Janus Films historical drama TWO PROSECUTORS is set to make its SVOD debut next week, arriving on The Criterion Channel on June 23rd, 2026, at 8p ET. The film world premiered in the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the François Chalais Prize. It launched in US theaters on March 20th, 2026, and hit digital platforms on May 26th, 2026.
Two Prosecutors is written and directed by Sergei Loznitsa, and is based on the novella of the same name by Georgy Demidov. It stars Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Aleksandr Filippenko, Anatoliy Beliy, Andris Keišs, Vytautas Kaniušonis, Valentin Novopolskij, and Dmitrij Denisiuk.
In the film, summoned with a blood-written note smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic state lawyer (Alexander Kuznetsov) pushes past the prison’s leery authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik (Aleksandr Filippenko). 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.
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