Synopsis
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. 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 (formerly Poland).
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Cast
- Robert WięckiewiczLeopold Soha
- Benno FürmannMundek Margulies
- Agnieszka GrochowskaKlara Keller
- Maria SchraderPaulina Chiger
- Herbert KnaupIgnacy Chiger
- Marcin BosakJanek Weiss
- Julia KijowskaChaja
- Jerzy WalczakJacob Berestycki
- Oliwer StanczakPawel Chiger
- Milla BankowiczKrystyna Chiger
Recommendations
- 88
Observer
In Darkness is gloomy and hard to take for a running time of 145 minutes, but it's 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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This story of suffering and almost inadvertent humanitarianism is harrowing, engrossing, claustrophobic and sometimes literally hard to watch. - 80
New York Daily News
It's a transformation as wrenching to watch as it is vital to remember. - 80
Los Angeles Times
In a world where everyone was looking for an angle, hoping to survive the nightmare and maybe even turn other people's misery into a tidy profit, the fact that a fragile humanity survived at all is little short of a miracle. - 80
Boxoffice Magazine
In Darkness takes its place among the many great European films to tackle the subject. Plenty of quality-seeking adult moviegoers will be lured to the arthouse and thoroughly moved. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In outline, In Darkness is a standard conversion melodrama, but little within those parameters is easy. The darkness lingers into the light. - 75
New York Post
Holland has said that she wanted her harrowing and rewarding epic to run long so it would make viewers feel that they're in the sewers as well. In this, she succeeds. - 70
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.
