This event is in the past.It took place on June 5, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Thriller
ThrillerDowntown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"A darkly absurdist odyssey through the Soviet totalitarian nightmare" (Variety)
🎥"Sergei Loznitsa holds you rapt with brutal faces, restless camera work, meticulous filmmaking" (New York Times)
🎓UC Berkeley professor intro on June 5
Sergei Loznitsa's chilling Kafka-esque thriller plunges into the 1937 Stalinist purges, following an idealistic lawyer who risks everything to expose injustice. The parallels to contemporary Russia make this meticulous, haunting political cinema impossible to shake.
Acclaimed director
Political cinema
Historical drama
Dark and intense
ThrillerThrillerDowntown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"A darkly absurdist odyssey through the Soviet totalitarian nightmare" (Variety)
🎥"Sergei Loznitsa holds you rapt with brutal faces, restless camera work, meticulous filmmaking" (New York Times)
🎓UC Berkeley professor intro on June 5
Sergei Loznitsa's chilling Kafka-esque thriller plunges into the 1937 Stalinist purges, following an idealistic lawyer who risks everything to expose injustice. The parallels to contemporary Russia make this meticulous, haunting political cinema impossible to shake.
Acclaimed director
Political cinema
Historical drama
Dark and intense