Wednesday 15 February 2017

In Darkness (2011) - 145 min

Country: Poland
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Robert Więckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Maria Schrader & Herbert Knaup.
The film tells the story of Leopold Socha, who helped Jews during the Nazi occupation of Lvov, a city in Poland. Socha is a sewer worker and one day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape through the underground. He decides to hide them in exchange for money.
It's a powerful story and center of attraction goes to Robert Wieckiewicz's character Socha. It's always hard to execute Holocaust movies and this film offers a new equation to the Holocaust films. It was Poland's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign language film, but lost to 'A Separation'. Overall, it's a powerful film with most of the sequences shot in dark atmosphere and At the same time it's horrifying and intense too.
Verdict: Good

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