Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Akhil Balachandran The film tells the story of Leopold Socha, who helped Jews during the Nazi occupation of Lvov, a city in Poland. Socha is a sewer worker and one day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape through the underground. He decides to hide them in exchange for money. It's a powerful story and center of attraction goes to Robert Wieckiewicz's character Socha. It's always hard to execute Holocaust movies and this film offers a new equation to the Holocaust films. It was Poland's entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign language film, but lost to 'A Separation'. Overall, it's a powerful film with most of the sequences shot in dark atmosphere and At the same time it's horrifying and intense too.

Dennis Anastasoff IN DARKNESS is a Polish, German and Canadian co-production. It is based on an actual incident that happened in Nazi-occupied Poland. So-called "holocaust" movies interest me, not as an indictment of any one people, but as a look into the "darkness" within mankind and the trigger that lets it come to the surface. The film delivers a knockout punch, focusing on a group of Jews who took to the sewers, enduring unspeakable indignities, while waiting for the war to end. I choose not to reveal any spoilers, but I feel I can say that the movie is a remarkable achievement, shot in dark and drab colors, that will keep you riveted, even as it is quite difficult to watch. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the 2012 Oscars.

WakenPayne I found this movie and picked it up because although most will disagree, I don't like World War 2 movies when Hollywood has anything to do with them. I mean they could demonstrate level of film making that's just as good - I just prefer the harsher tone that is given by the European countries especially. So I decided to watch this and... Why didn't it win that Oscar? Okay so the story is that 2 sewer inspectors stumble across escaping Jews but as opposed to turning them in - they decide to help them by moving them to a hiding place in the sewer and then trying to keep them away from an occupied Poland for 14 months.This movie does have down how tense everything is. In all these scenes - you are given no music and the whole time all you're doing is hanging on every word. My favourite scene that does this is when a Polish Nazi arrives unexpectedly at their house (the second time - mind you the first time could also be mentioned in this way) and the sewer worker is asked to provide them a drink and some food but he takes some out of the pile to make for the Jewish people and his daughter says "No, that's for the Jews". That scene just had me fixated to the screen the entire time.Although the drama is really well done as well. I didn't even check to see how much of this is legit but the scene where the 1 day old baby got murdered by his mother is really well done in the way of "They're not evil, just extremely desperate to survive for another day" and I'm going to say, this movie captures that better then any other Holocaust movie I have seen.If I were to name a complaint with this, I'd have to say (and I know the first one is a nitpick) I hate it when there are a couple of shots with bright lights engulfing the screen and the Polish Nazi is not a developed character. I don't think he's in the film all that often and when he is it just seems like all that was done to him to make him different from all the other generic movie Nazi's is that at a time he knew the main character and "He could trust him". Speaking of, the family isn't brought into it that often when I kind of wanted to see more of them.Complaints aside this is a very well made Holocaust movie. I really think in terms of the genre, this is one of the best. All I have to say at this point is that if I see this director's name on anything else, I will get it immediately.

SpannersGerm669 In Darkness is yet another film set during the Nazi occupation of war torn Poland. The Nazis have begun their mission of terror. Rounding up Jews and taking them to concentration camps where unfortunately, many of them lost their lives.Leopold is our main character. He decides to help a handful of Jewish people, doomed to the concentration camps. In order to avoid the same fate as six million others, the Jews are taken to the underground sewers in order to hide from the dangers above. The whole film has a very claustrophobic and suspenseful tone, that tells this wonderful tale of what good human beings are capable of doing during such horrific times. We have the usual betrayal of trust which just adds to the uncertainty that the film generates. These sorts of movies of seemingly ordinary human beings doing extraordinary things against injustice are very common, but In Darkness manages to create something that you haven't seen before, in an already tired sub genre.That takes some doing and as a result, In Darkness is a film to behold!