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Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 88% of the 6,766 2020s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of alleged corruption in the Secret Police, and takes it upon himself to investigate.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes98%
Metacritic85/100
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
48 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei LoznitsaWriter
- Sergei LoznitsaDirector
- Christiaan VerbeekOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Aleksandr KuznetsovKornev
- Aleksandr FilippenkoStepniak and the Man with the Wooden Leg
- Anatoliy BelyyVyshynsky
- Andris KeišsThe Deputy
- Vytautas KaniušonisPrison Director
- Valentin NovopolskijChatterbox
- Ivgeny TerletskyOld Prisoner
- Orests PaškoCorridor Guard
- Valerijus JevsejevasOld prosecutor
- Timur IbragimovPetty officer
- Gatis RubinsGuardian
- Uldis ValtersPrison Guard
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Themes
based on novel or bookbased on true storyjoseph stalinprosecutorgovernment corruptionhistorical drama1930scourtroom dramasoviet union historyussr