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- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 25 m
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 25 m
Summary In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day 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. What starts out as ...
Directed By: Agnieszka Holland
Written By: Robert Marshall, David F. Shamoon
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 25 m
- 2012
- R
- Sony Pictures Classics
- 2 h 25 m
In Darkness
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7.0
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Summary In Darkness is based on a true story. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day 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. What starts out as ...
Directed By: Agnieszka Holland
Written By: Robert Marshall, David F. Shamoon
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
74
86% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
11% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
3% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
74
86% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
11% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
In Darkness is an extraordinary movie, and somehow good art creates its own uplift.
While In Darkness sticks to formula, it brings across that formula effectively.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.0
58% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
38% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.0
58% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
38% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
4% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Hmmm, I don't recall Anne Frank's group engaging in so much frantic sex while they were in hiding. But with so many angles of the Holocaust horrors having been covered in so many other dramas, I found this one different and gripping. The lead actor's extraordinarily expressive face fills us in on his emotional and moral journey; he starts out self-serving and mercenary, but becomes invested in the desperate people who depend on him. If you are interested in this period of history, "In Darkness" will be a worthwhile addition to what you know about it.
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Transcending Holo-kitsch, In Darkness is often a thrilling adventure picture - as if Anne Frank had found an "Inglourious Basterd" to help her make "The Great Escape."
Based on actual events, this claustrophobic epic is as emotional as they come: a Holocaust story shot through with a layer of darkness both literal and figurative
In Darkness is an agonizing experience, especially when Jews are publicly humiliated in the streets and a driving rainstorm nearly drowns those cowering in the depths. Holland means to shake you. In Darkness has the power to haunt will haunt your dreams.
Over time, Holland's approach pushes beyond despair and turns into a pure exercise in grim atmosphere, shifting from a story of staying alive to a closeup of a private hell.
It's the rare film that should not introduce new story elements or characters past its first act. In Darkness, a garbage movie applying for unlimited credit on the most meager collateral, is that film.
A taut thriller about a true story of a dozen jews hiding out in a sewage system under Warsaw in 1944-45. Their savior is a Catholic Pole who starts off as your usual anti semitic Polish peasant type yet develops, against his own fear and biases, into a true hero, warts and all. His motivation starts off as greed (they pay him in cash and jewelry) but grows from that to humanitarian concern, in part due to his more liberal wife. The characters are well developed and show an honest diversity of humans all dealing with imprisonment, terror, and starvation. A well crafted movie that tells itself without undue drama or pity. I'm not sure how well it will play out in Poland, a country well known for it's depravity and soullessness to it's own Jewish citizens.
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I remark this to be something else... but In Darkness though. It isn't the best movie I've ever seen of this decade but it sure can take a stay with the great movies up there.
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There is a certain poignancy to this film but that lays within the story and nothing else. There's little connection between the viewer and the story unfolding. There is little connection between the watcher and the characters. It misses. The empathy is there but there's no connection.
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In Darkness is aptly titled. This film is incredibly dark, both in a lighting sense and its subject matter. Based on the book, In the Sewers of Lvov: a Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust, In Darkness joins a long line of films which document Jewish ghettos during World War II. The story follows an individual group of Jews who evade the **** once the ghetto massacre begins. The group dug a hole from one of their small apartments which leads down into the murky mess of the Lvov, Poland sewers. The resident lord of the sewers is Lvovâ
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Production Company
Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv,
The Film Works,
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej,
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM),
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg,
Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF),
Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA),
Hessen-Invest Film,
The Harold Greenberg Fund,
Rogers Telefund,
Mongrel Media,
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC),
CinePostproduction,
Agentur Filmissimo,
Cinegate,
Studio Babelsberg,
Studio Filmowe Zebra,
Urban Post Production
Release Date Feb 10, 2012
Duration 2 h 25 m
Rating R
Tagline Based on the true World War II Story
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Polish Film Awards
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Genie Awards
• 3 Nominations
