Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada, Poland
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto is about to be liquidated. Determined to help twelve Jewish workers, she decides to shelter them in the safest place she can think of – the basement of the German Major's house. Over the next eight months, Irena uses her wit, humour and immense courage to hide her friends as long as possible.
- self sacrifice
- resistance
- world war ii
- based on true story
- moral courage
- persecution
- hidden room
- nsdap (nazi party)
- 1940s
- guetto
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sharon Azrieli — Helen
- Eliza Rycembel — Ida
- Aleksandar Milićević — Lazar
- Agata Turkot — Clara
- Filip Kosior — Thomas
- Krzysztof Szczepaniak — Moise
- Irena Melcer — Zosia
- Eryk Kulm — Abram Klinger
- Zuzanna Puławska — Fanka
- Tomasz Tyndyk — Henry
- Julia Kostow — Hanged Girl
- Directed
- Louise Archambault
- Written
- Dan Gordon
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 132 ratings
- Studio
- Darius Films, Entract Studios, Téléfilm Canada, Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny, Telewizja Polska, K&K Film Selekt
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.
