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In Darkness
The movie revolves around Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers, but later he risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death.
31 August 1971, Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
1985, Poland
9 September 1979, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
27 September 1965, Hannover, Germany
27 October 1964, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
2 July 1979, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
1 October 1983, Zabkowice Slaskie, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
4 June 1957, Lvov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Lviv, Ukraine]
26 October 1984, Moscow, Russia
April 21, 2013
The Academy Award-nominated film does not disappoint in terms of performances or presentation, except for its length. A good percentage of its 145 minutes is spent in subterranean near-darkness.
March 02, 2012
The chiseled Furmann gives Mundek a savvy, even moral, brawn. As Paulina, Maria Schrader makes an argument for gentle yet pragmatic maternalism.
March 08, 2012
Based on the true story of Leopold Socha, a Catholic Polish sewer worker who hid a group of Jews over a period of 14 months in the underground tunnels of Lvov.
September 08, 2013
The title says it all, really.
March 11, 2014
Just when you thought you could never watch another drama about surviving the Holocaust, veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland unearths an astonishing saga from a subterranean past.
March 11, 2014
Holland's film is extraordinarily generous with its characters in ways that take the story beyond being a historical fable of altruism and endurance.
March 13, 2012
It positively clamours for your attention.
March 11, 2014
Though the film's factual basis dictates an upbeat ending, much of the journey is appropriately and memorably grim.
March 09, 2012
The film is a morally challenging examination of the vexed Polish Catholic-Jewish relations of the era and a rich portrait of a man moving almost reluctantly toward righteousness.
March 08, 2012
More than half of In Darkness takes place underground, shrouded in rank, oppressive shadows. But the movie also glows bright with life and hope.
March 16, 2012
Based on a true story, "In Darkness" is obviously tough to watch, especially since Holland's camera is both unforgiving and relentlessly human.
March 11, 2014
Unique among Holocaust films, Agnieszka Holland's Academy Award-nominated In Darkness is set during World War II in a small town in Poland named Lvov (now a part of the Ukraine).

