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In Darkness

W ciemnosci (In Darkness)

2011

Agnieszka Holland

Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader ...

7.0

842

Drama 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).

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"This story of suffering and almost inadvertent humanitarianism is harrowing, engrossing, claustrophobic and sometimes literally hard to watch"	POS
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"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"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"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)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It is suspenseful, horrifying and at times intensely moving. But the ease with which it elicits these responses from the audience feels more opportunistic than insightful."	POS
United Kingdom	Philip French The Guardian	"I's a long movie, but it compels you to experience something of what it was like to live for 14 months hungry, cold and knowing that at any minute the agents of a cruel, vindictive regime could arrive to treat you like the rats that shared your sewer."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A film that's very long, very dark, against Nazis, and of course 'based on a true story' (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU

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