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In Darkness
In Darkness

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Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann
Feb 10, 2012
R, 2 hr. 25 min.

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Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Kinga Preis, Marcin Bosak, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Julia Kijowska, Jerzy Walczak
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Rated: R
Running Time: 2 hr. 25 min.
Genre: Drama
Theater Release: Feb 10, 2012
DVD Release: Jun 12, 2012
Synopsis: From acclaimed director Agnieszka Holland, In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha's conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever increasing and intense danger. -- (C) Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • Tom Long, Detroit News
    Based on a true story, "In Darkness" is obviously tough to watch, especially since Holland's camera is both unforgiving and relentlessly human.
  • Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
    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.
  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
    The chiseled Furmann gives Mundek a savvy, even moral, brawn. As Paulina, Maria Schrader makes an argument for gentle yet pragmatic maternalism.
  • John Anderson, Newsday
    An epic, and no less of one for taking place largely in the claustrophobic confines of a Polish sewer system.
  • Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
    When it's over, you'll be relieved to come up for air. You'll also be glad you took the plunge down under.
  • Ty Burr, Boston Globe
    The film looks fine, is structured intelligently, measures out the horror in pragmatic amounts. In the end, though, it's that professionalism that gets in the way.
  • Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
    Holland, shooting in confined spaces with little light, elicits taut performances from a strong cast.
  • David Denby, New Yorker
    Honesty is the movie's greatest strength.
  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
    One might think that years and years of seeing Holocaust movies would create an immunity, a point at which you can feel no more. But in fact, it works the other way.
  • Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic
    Wieckiewicz is outstanding, his open face expressing a full range of emotions, often within the same scene, sometimes within the same conversation. Is he a good man? Or is he a greedy man moved to do good things?
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