« Two prosecutors », a wonder – liberation purge

Funny animal that Kornev, the protagonist of Two prosecutors. Both a frog which, softened in a saucepan of water placed on the fire, does not realize that it will soon end up boiled, and a donkey, terribly obstinate, rushing straight in the doors without ever looking around. Played by a white clown with a strange face (that of Alexander Kouznetsov, discovered in THE Leto by Kirill Serebrennikov) and perpetually exhausted, he crosses the Soviet Union of the years of the great Stalinist purge like a Mister Hulot or a Prince Mychkin, his unfathomable gaze metamorphosing totalitarian hell in singular theater of the absurd. His story adapted from a novel by Gueorgui Demidov (best known with us as a character of the Memoirs of Goulag by Varlam Chalamov), nevertheless begins with a visit to the nine circles of Soviet Hell, that is to say a British prison where the freshly graduated lawyer came to inquire about the content of a missive sent to Moscow by a detainee saying himself of abuse and torture. Despite the efforts of the prison chief to dissuade him, Kornev ends up obtaining an interview with Stepniak, veteran Bolchevik who says he is victim of the drifts of a local NKVD at the height