EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2012
IN DARKNESS
(W CIEMNOŚCI)
Germany/Poland/Canada 144 min
Based on a true story: Leopold Socha, a sewerage worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi-occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town’s sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise seeps deeper into Socha’s conscience. The film is also an extraordinary story of survival as these men, women and children all try to outwit certain death during 14 months of ever-increasing and intense danger.
Production: SCHMIDTz KATZE FILMKOLLEKTIV GmbH Schönhauser Allee 163 10435 Berlin GERMANY tel. +49 (30) 417166 53 fax +40 (30) 4171 66 52 contact@schmidtzkatze.eu
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Photos: Jasmin Marla Dichant © SCHMIDTz KATZE FILMKOLLEKTIV / ZEBRA Film Studio / The Film Works
DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Holland WRITTEN BY: David F. Shamoon PRODUCED BY: Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Leander Carell, Juliusz Machulski, Eric Jordan & Paul Stephens DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jolanta Dylewska EDITOR: Michał Czarnecki PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Erwin Prib ORIGINAL SCORE: Antoni Komasa-Łazarkiewicz MAIN CAST: Robert Więckiewicz (Leopold Socha), Benno Fürmann (Mundek Margulies), Agnieszka Grochowska (Klara Keller), Maria Schrader (Paulina Chiger), Herbert Knaup (Ignacy Chiger)