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in Darkness
Uniform Title
W ciemności. English subtitles.
Title
in Darkness / Sony Pictures Classics ; Beta Cinema presents ; a Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv, Zebra Film Studio, the Film Works production ; directed by Agnieszka Holland ; written by David F. Shamoon ; produced by Steffen Reuter, Patrick Knippel, Marc-Daniel Dichant, Leander Carell.
Production
Germany ; Poland ; Canada : Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv : Zebra Film Studio : the Film Works production, 2011.
Publication
Culver City, California : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2012.
Copyright Notice Date
© 2012.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Based on the book: In the sewers of Lvov, by Robert Marshall.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
No Polish title on screen, container, or disc surface.
Includes 5 previews of other motion pictures.
Special features: An evening with Agnieszka Holland; In light : a conversation with Agnieszka Holland and real life survivor Krystyna Chiger.
Director of photography, Jolanta Dylewska ; editing, Michael Czarnecki ; music, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz.
In Polish with optional English subtitles. May include some German, Yiddish, and/or Ukrainian.
Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, 2011 ; Official Selection, Telluride Film Festival, 2011 ; Official Selection, Toronto Film Festival, 2011.
Summary
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi-occupied city in Poland. One day he 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--Container.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Polish
Added to Catalog
January 23, 2018
Credits
Director of photography, Jolanta Dylewska ; editing, Michael Czarnecki ; music, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz.
Cast
Herbert Knaup, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Więckiewicz, Maria Schrader, Kinga Preis, Marcin Bosak, Julia Kijowska.
System details note
DVD, NTSC, Region 1, Dolby digital 5.1 sound, widescreen (16:9 or 1.77:1) (on container, "1.85:1 - anamorphic widescreen" may be wrong).
Audience
United States (Motion Picture Association of America) rating: R, restricted, violence, disturbing images, sexuality, nudity and language.
Videorecording number
40458 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment or Sony Pictures Classics.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Historical films.
Motion pictures - Germany.
Motion pictures - Poland.
Motion pictures - Canada.
Motion pictures, Polish.
Foreign films - Poland.
Feature films - Poland.
Feature films - Germany.
Feature films - Canada.
Foreign language films - Polish.
Also listed under
Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv, production company.
Studio Filmowe Zebra, production company.
Film Works, production company.
Beta Cinema (Firm), production company.
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), DVD publisher, distributor.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), parent company of DVD publisher and distributor.
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