Alexander Kuznetsov stars as an idealistic young attorney determined to expose the miscarriages of justice that landed an elderly Bolshevik (Aleksandr Filippenko) in prison in Sergei Loznitsa's latest triumph-a chilling, Kafkaesque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism, set at the height of the great purge and drenched in the paranoia of Stalin's police state.
