- 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.
- Other Title
- In the sewers of Lvov.
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2012]
- Locale
- Ukraine
Lʹviv
- Other Authors/Editors
- Holland, Agnieszka, 1948- director.
Reuter, Steffen, producer.
Shamoon, David F., screenwriter.
Knaup, Herbert, 1956- actor.
Fürmann, Benno, 1972- actor.
Grochowska, Agnieszka, 1979- actor.
Więckiewicz, Robert, actor.
Schrader, Maria, 1965- actor.
Dylewska, Jola, 1958- cinematographer.
Czarnecki, Michael, editor.
Łazarkiewicz, Antoni, 1980- composer.
Marshall, Robert, 1952-
Preis, Kinga.
Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv.
Studio Filmowe Zebra.
Film Works.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Sony Pictures Classics (Firm)
Beta Cinema (Firm)
- Notes
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Based on the book: In the sewers of Lvov / Robert Marshall.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
"Beta Cinema presents"--Container.
Includes 5 previews of other motion pictures.
Special features: An evening with Agnieszka Holland; In light : a conversation with Agnieszka Holland and Holocaust survivor Krystyna Chiger; theatrical trailer.
Director of photography, Jolanta Dylewska ; editing, Michael Czarnecki ; music, Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz.
Herbert Knaup, Benno Furmann, Agnieszka Grochowska, Robert Wieckiewicz, Maria Schrader, Kinga Preis.
MPAA rating: R; for violence, disturbing images, sexuality, nudity and language.
DVD; region 1; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby digital 5.1.
Polish dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
