In darkness
| Movie | |
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| German title | In darkness |
| Original title | W ciemności |
| Country of production | Poland , Germany , Canada |
| original language | Polish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 144 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Agnieszka Holland |
| script | Robert Marshall David F. Shamoon |
| music | Antoni Komasa-Łazarkarkiewicz |
| camera | Jolanta Dylewska |
| cut | Michal Czarnecki |
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In Darkness (German: In der Finsternis ; Polish original title: W ciemności ) is a film drama about the Holocaust by Polish director Agnieszka Holland from 2011. The script is based on the book In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall and the memories of Krystyna Chriger entitled The Girl in the Green Sweater . The film was nominated for “ Best Foreign Language Film ” at the 2012 Academy Awards.
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The film tells the story of the Jewish Chiger family and a group of Jews who escaped the ghetto and seek refuge in the Lviv sewers. The Polish sewer worker Leopold Socha (played by Robert Więckiewicz) helps them, initially out of greed, but then out of compassion.
Reviews
Wolfgang Martin Harmdorf wrote for Deutschlandradio Kultur : “ In Darkness is not a film that shows its protagonists in moral light-dark contrasts. But it tells in an impressive way about human survivability, about hope in hopelessness. "
“Director Agnieszka Holland stages the merciless tumult in the underground as an oppressive nightmare game, but also leads into colossal realms with naturalistic interludes. All in all, your film seems more like an emotional rollercoaster ride than an intellectual penetration of Polish history, and whenever it leaves its nightmarish level behind, it becomes a faint copy of an incomprehensible reality. "
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Filming began on January 25, 2010 and continued through April 1. The film was shot in the old town of Piotrków Trybunalski , Łódź , Warsaw , Berlin and Leipzig . The German version was produced by TV + Synchron Berlin .
The film had its world premiere on September 2, 2011 at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado / USA. It was distributed in January 2012 by Sony Pictures Classics for the USA, in Canada by their exclusive partner Mongrel Media and worldwide by Beta Cinema, Oberhaching near Munich. The cinema release in Germany is on February 9, 2012.
The film is dedicated to Marek Edelman , one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943.
Awards
- 2011: Audience Award at the St. Louis International Film Festival
- 2012: Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film
- 2012: Main Prize of the Gdynia Film Festival
- 2012: Polish Film Awards in the categories of Best Actor (Robert Więckiewicz), Best Supporting Actress (Kinga Prize) and Best Cinematography
Web links
- In Darkness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards
- ↑ Wolfgang Martin Harmdorf: Hope in the Dark , article from February 7, 2012 on dradio.de, accessed on March 21, 2012.
- ↑ In Darkness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Press release for the film, p. 24 (English, PDF file; 420 kB)