In Darkness
Alternate title(s):
Foreign Title: W ciemnosci
Date: January 01, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Dates Note: 2011
Country of Origin:
Canada
,
Germany
,
Poland
Place of Origin: Poland, Germany, Canada
Languages:
Polish
,
Ukrainian
,
Yiddish
,
German
Color: Color
Silent: No
Based On: In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall
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Afterimage: Agnieszka HollandDescription:
Claustrophobic and searing, In Darkness is based on a true story that occurred in Lvov, Poland, during the Nazi occupation. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief, 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. Holland and her cast and crew, who illuminated the sewer scenes almost entirely by flashlight, create an underground world that is dank, tactile, oppressive, and a hair’s breadth from the imminent dangers of the world above ground.
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