In Darkness

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Genre: Drama / War / Foreign Language
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Running time: 143 mins
Released: 16th March 2012

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About In Darkness

This Oscar-nominated movie is based on a true story. Leopold Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz) is a sewerage worker in Poland during World War II. He supplements his income by stealing, using the sewer tunnels beneath the city of Lvov to hide his spoils. When a nearby ghetto is liquidised he meets some Jewish people desperately running from persecution. As a Catholic he is no advocate for their struggle, but he grudgingly agrees to hide them in the sewers in exchange for money. His secret takes its toll in various ways; he might be saving some lives, but he has to go to increasingly unsavoury lengths (including murder) to protect them. Our hero journeys from self-serving to self-sacrificing, we see the evils of the Nazi reign in close detail, and everyone must make decisions that eat away at their humanity.