Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Polish
- Country
- Poland, Germany, Canada
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Polish — subtitles on.
The story
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied city of Lviv. In Darkness tells the true story of Leopold Soha who risks his own life to save a dozen people from certain death. Initially only interested in his own good, the thief and burglar hides Jewish refugees for 14 months in the sewers of the Nazi-occupied town of Lviv (formerly Poland).
- nazi
- refugee
- thief
- sewer
- woman director
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Więckiewicz
Leopold Soha
Benno Fürmann
Mundek Margulies
Agnieszka Grochowska
Klara Keller
Maria Schrader
Paulina Chiger
- Herbert Knaup — Ignacy Chiger
- Marcin Bosak — Janek Weiss
- Julia Kijowska — Chaja
- Jerzy Walczak — Jacob Berestycki
- Oliwer Stanczak — Pawel Chiger
- Milla Bankowicz — Krystyna Chiger
- Krzysztof Skonieczny — Szczepek
- Kinga Preis — Wanda Socha
- Michał Żurawski — Bortnik
- Laura Lo Zito — Irena
- Aleksander Mincer — Szlomo Landsberg
- Directed
- Agnieszka Holland
- Written
- David F. Shamoon
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 205 ratings
- Studio
- Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv, The Film Works, Studio Filmowe Zebra
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
