In Darkness

  • November 15, 2014 / 19:00
  • December 3, 2014 / 19:00

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska

Poland, Germany, Canada, 145’, 2011, color
Polish with Turkish subtitles

A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. Set in Lvov in 1943, and based on a true story of Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha and the fateful encounter that changes his life. When Socha encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the threatened liquidation of the ghetto by hiding in the cramped, rat-infested sewers, they offer him money to guide them to a secret spot and provide them with food. He makes up his mind and finally risks his own life for those refugees...

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