Context). Two Prosecutors is perhaps his most austere film to date — controlled as tightly as the NKVD (Stalin’s secret police of the 1930s and 40s) controlled the Soviet people. It’s not always an ...

The entries start in 1938, when Stalin called on Beria to leave his native Georgia and travel to Moscow to work as the deputy to Nikolai Yezhov, head of the feared NKVD secret police and known as ...

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction filmmaking with 'Two Prosecutors." Read our review out of Cannes.

German productions in Cannes are sure to entice festgoers and buyers alike with an eclectic selection heavy on historical ...

Its lead character is Kornyev, a recent graduate who’s been newly appointed the job of prosecutor, and who receives a letter from an inmate claiming that he’s been falsely imprisoned by NKVD, Stalin’s ...

The Ukrainian drifter admitted that English is not his second, but his third language. Yuriy Bukhenik hails from the Soviet Union. Apparently his assimilation into civilized society has been ...

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One such task, burning a huge mound of unopened petitions from the Party faithful to “Dear Comrade Stalin,” falls to an old man incarcerated ... and injustice at the hands of the local NKVD (secret ...

After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns to Cannes with a furious but funny ...

In 1945, Soviet General Sergei Shtemenko told Sergo Beria, whose father had been a feared Soviet secret police chief during the Stalin era, “It was expected that the Americans would abandon a Europe ...