WWII, Polish Lviv. Factual adaptation of the story of Leopold Socha a Polish sewer worker/petty criminal
and his endeavour to protect hidden Jews at enormous personal risk. Socha would later be honoured for his role.
Largely filmed undergound, it is therefore, a dark movie - and a reasonably good historical thriller.
Opening QFT's Kinoteka mini-festival of Polish movies, In Darkness drew a large crowd of Poles and non-Poles to Screen 1. There was immediately before the film a brief clip of director Agnieszka Holland apologising that she could not be there in person to present the film owing to current work commitments.
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