Co-production Poland-Germany; Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv / The Film Works / Zebra Films / Studio Babelsberg
AWARDS
2011: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film 2011: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film 2011: Seminci: Official Selection 2012: European Film Awards: Nominated for Audience Award (Best European Film)
IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lvov (former Poland).
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"This story of suffering and almost inadvertent humanitarianism is harrowing, engrossing, claustrophobic and sometimes literally hard to watch" (Todd McCarthy: Variety) ----------------------------------------
"An important film, related with deep conviction, and uncompromising in its understanding of the remarkable things members of the human race have done - to, for, and against each other - in the wilderness of war" (Rex Reed: The New York Observer) ----------------------------------------
"The film offers a warts-and-all portrait of victims and saviors, forgoing the heroism inherent in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (...) In Darkness is an agonizing experience (...) Rating: *** (out of four)" (Peter Travers: Rolling Stone) ----------------------------------------
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