A letter written in blood: A review of “Two Prosecutors” by Sergei Loznitsa
Rafik Aharonyan reviews “Two Prosecutors”, Sergei Loznitsa’s film about Stalinist repression and the machinery of terror in Soviet Russia.
Rafik Aharonyan reviews “Two Prosecutors”, Sergei Loznitsa’s film about Stalinist repression and the machinery of terror in Soviet Russia. Maya Ivanova reviews “Time Shelter”, a book about the fatigue with the present and the seductive pool of the past. Flavia Stähli reviews Nora Ikstena’s “Soviet Milk”, a powerful mother-daughter story of family, repression and fragile hope under Soviet rule in Latvia. Riccardo Franceschetti reviews “Prisoners of Conscience”, a collective film portraying political repression in Georgia through the stories of detainees. Georgie Archer review “Cat on my Mind”, a film about reconstructing other people’s lives through second-hand images, assumptions and imagination. Riccardo Franceschetti reviews “Clouds move with great speed”, a film about Ukrainians’ struggle to survive in the harrowing reality of war.
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