Sunday 07 February

France, Germany, Netherlands, Latvia

Romania, Lithuania, Ukraine 2025 1h 58m  cert.12a

Director: Sergey Loznitsa 

Stars: Alexander Kuznetsov, Ivgeny Terletsky, Timur Ibragimov 

Russian, Ukranian with English subtitiles

In the USSR in 1937, a newly appointed prosecutor discovers an undestroyed letter from a prisoner that reveals corruption in the secret police, the NKVD. His search for the truth becomes dangerous.

"The film is extraordinary: the measured pace exerts an ever-tightening chokehold of tension, and the period details are brilliantly evoked.”   

Wendy Idle The Observer

Trailer