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.
2 March 1976, Stronie Slaskie, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
1987, Leipzig, Germany
26 October 1984, Moscow, Russia
17 January 1972, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
9 September 1979, Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
2 July 1979, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
1948
9 January 1984, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
8 October 1981, Poland
15 April 1961, Görlitz, German Democratic Republic
1982, Poland
27 October 1964, Chorzów, Slaskie, Poland
26 September 1960, Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland
1985, Hamburg, Germany
3 March 1994, Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland
30 June 1967, Nowa Ruda, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
31 December 1979, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
16 May 1962, Zory, Slaskie, Poland
6 July 1968, Plock, Mazowieckie, Poland
1966, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
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 13, 2012
It positively clamours for your attention.
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 11, 2014
Though the film's factual basis dictates an upbeat ending, much of the journey is appropriately and memorably grim.
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).
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 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 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.
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 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.
September 08, 2013
The title says it all, really.
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.

