Drama Film
Drama Film📰"instant classic...nightmare from which he is trying to awake" (New York Times)
🎬"SUPERBLY CHILLING...shivers of Hitchcockian suspense" (New Yorker)
⏱️118 minutes — settle in for the slow burn
A young prosecutor's promise to right a 1937 Soviet injustice leads him into a bureaucratic trap from which there's no waking. Sergei Loznitsa's hypnotic legal thriller is Kafkaesque nightmare with shivers of bitter wit: a totalitarian horror story that speaks urgently to the present.
Kafkaesque bureaucracy
Soviet historical thriller
Darkly absurdist
Arthouse cinema
Times
Tuesday, August 25, 12:20 PM
Drama FilmDrama Film📰"instant classic...nightmare from which he is trying to awake" (New York Times)
🎬"SUPERBLY CHILLING...shivers of Hitchcockian suspense" (New Yorker)
⏱️118 minutes — settle in for the slow burn
A young prosecutor's promise to right a 1937 Soviet injustice leads him into a bureaucratic trap from which there's no waking. Sergei Loznitsa's hypnotic legal thriller is Kafkaesque nightmare with shivers of bitter wit: a totalitarian horror story that speaks urgently to the present.
Kafkaesque bureaucracy
Soviet historical thriller
Darkly absurdist
Arthouse cinema
Times
Tuesday, August 25, 12:20 PM
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