In Darkness (DVD) (UK Import)

Directed by Agnieszka Holland

Starring: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Marcin Bosak, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Milla Bankowicz, Oliwer Stanczak, Kinga Preis, Weronika Rosati, Alexandre Levit
Contributors: David F. Shamoon, Leander Carell, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Eric Jordan, Patrick Knippel, Juliusz Machulski, Steffen Reuter, Paul Stephens, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkarkiewicz, Jolanta Dylewska
Studio: Metrodome Distribution
Genre: World Cinema
Main Language: Polish, Ukrainian, Yiddish, German
Subtitles: English
Region: Region 2
Release Date: 9 Jul 2012
Originally Issued: 2011
No of Discs: 1
BBFC Cert: (15) Suitable for 15 years and over.
Run Time: 144 minutes

Description

Agnieszka Holland directs this Polish drama based on the true story of a sewage worker who saved the lives of a group of Jewish refugees in the city of Lvov during the Second World War. Leopold 'Poldek' Socha (Robert Wieckiewicz), a resolutely anti-Semitic sewer inspector who supplements his meagre government income by trading in stolen goods, discovers a group of Jews hiding from the occupying Nazis in the waste tunnels underneath the city. The group begs him to bring them food and Socha agrees - not from any moral compulsion but because he believes he can charge them an extortionate amount of money for what he brings.

However, as time passes and Leopold spends more time with a group of people who come to rely on him for survival, the inspector's misanthropic demeanour appears to undergo a drastic change.

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