In Darkness - A film by Agnieszka Holland

""The suspense here derived from a true story, is excruciating and inspiring in equal measure.""
Joe Morgenstern, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film of the Year • Academy Awards, USA, 2012


IN DARKNESS tells the true story of Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland. Stumbling upon a group of Jews in the sewers, he agrees to hide them for a price. What starts out as a straightforward business arrangement becomes something unexpected, as they all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of intense danger.

2011, Canada, Germany, Poland , Languages: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
145 min.