Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to the Cannes Film Festival, the fascinating Soviet-era drama "Two Prosecutors" for the first time in nearly a decade that famous filmmakers will compete for Palme d'Or. The film industry will premiere in the competition on May 14.

Set in a provincial Soviet town in 1937 during the supreme reign of Josef Stalin, Loznitsa is a painful portrait of a man's powerlessness, a cruel and ruthless institution of a cruel, capricious state.

The director said it was a story that found shocking echoes in today's world activity, with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin cutting dissent in his country's ongoing war in Ukraine when U.S. President Donald Trump showed off his dictatorial consciousness and celess ignoring the rule of law. “Looking at this story, we also recognize the present,” Loznitsa told type.

"It seems like we are returning to time before World War II, which is sad. It's very regrettable," the director said.. "It seems that no lesson has been learned from the events that happened in the 1980s, 90 years ago. That's why I'm going to go back to this topic and show a small part of the totalitarian regime that seems to be coming back - its shadow looming on the horizon."

The “two prosecutors” took place during the elaborate purgation of Stalin to consolidate his holdings of the Communist Party. It follows the newly appointed prosecutor Alexander Kornyev, who received an anonymous letter with paper on blood on cardboard. Its mysterious author is a political prisoner who begged young prosecutors to investigate his case.

Despite efforts from local political parties that hindered his investigation, Kornyev (Aleskandr Kuznetsov) managed to interview the man, where his abused body was subjected to evidence of torture at the hands of a horrible secret Soviet police station. Kornyev, a dedicated Bolshevik full of youthful idealism and integrity, began seeking justice for prisoners - a journey that would take him to the heart of Moscow and Stalin's totalitarian regimes.

Loznitsa said the film was adapted from the novella by scientist and political prisoner Georgy Demidov, who spent 14 years in the Soviet Gulags, who later recorded his experiences and recorded the "Stalinist machine that suppressed the Soviet Union."

Written in 1969, at that time, even a casual reader risked the Soviet authorities, the unpublished manuscript was captured by KGB, along with the rest of Demidov's work in 1980, eight years later, after the author's death, eight years later, the lost manuscript was sent back to his daughter, which was returned in his daughter's request. (Be informed)," Loznitsa said.

“Two Prosecutors” marks the director's return to fiction filmmaking after a nearly decade-long hiatus, since his black comes “Donbass” won the prize for best director in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival in 2018. It is his third time competing for the Palme d'Or, following his feature debug, the road film “My Joy” (2010), and the riveting Russia-set drama “A Gentle Creature” (2017), withIn recent years, a series of highly respected documentaries have occupied the directors.

Born in modern Belarus, Loznitsa grew up in Kiev and returned to the Cannes Film Festival a year after the screening of “Invasion”, a documentary that chronicles the daily life scenes of Russia during the Ukrainian War. The director, who left his home more than twenty years ago, had barely seen his confidence in the end of the conflict in recent world events, which had been raging for more than a thousand days, said: "I'm afraid we are far from peace at the moment."

Although President Trump has restructured U.S. foreign policy to Moscow and strengthened ties with U.S. former Bête Noire in Putin, Loznitsa is comforted by the prospect of Trump's experienced peace deal. "The events that have happened in the last 100 days have really surprised many people around the world. I think a lot of people are shocked by what is happening," he said. "One person can't even imagine being in a nightmare like this, which is an understanding between two authoritarian leaders.

"One of these leaders represents a country that is heading back towards Stalinism - a country that violates international law and this country wages war with its neighbors." "The other leader represents a country that has always been considered a democratic Serbia, which declares not only the rule of law and human rights, but also fights for human rights." He fears that it is only a matter of time before "the two countries will become equal."

Loznitsa was a product of the Cold War, growing up under the mutually guaranteed doctrine of destruction, when the prospect of nuclear annihilation was just a midnight phone call or red button. He spent his career in filmmaking, documenting the worst impulses of humanity, his futility toward human efforts and the perception that we continue to fail to learn from the lessons of the past is shocking.

In the last few years before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Loznitsa worked as a scientist at the Institute of Cybernetics of Kiev, where he specialized in artificial intelligence research. In marking the extraordinary gains of the technology, he once again found himself reflecting on the threat of human existence and the prospect of extinction.

"We know that once upon a time, dinosaurs walked the earth. Then they disappeared. But then new dinosaurs appeared." "Life will find different forms. The basic flaw is that we think we are omnipotent and super powerful. But in reality, from a natural point of view, we are very weak. We, as humans, occupy a very small position in this huge universe."