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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In Darkness (W ciemności) is a 2011 film from Poland directed by Agnieszka Holland.It's based on a true story. 1943, Lwow (Polish before the war, "Lviv" under the Ukraine after the war). The city has been under Nazi occupation for two years. Leopold "Poldek" Socha is a sewer inspector who, with his young sidekick Szczepek, has a side business as a burglar and a trafficker in stolen goods. His access to, and knowledge of, the sewers allows him to get inside the Jewish ghetto, otherwise completely sealed off. Poldek does a predatory business with the desperate, starving Jews of the ghetto, taking their money or their valuables, and coming back with food—taking, of course, a slice of the money for himself.Poldek is off to the ghetto one day in June when he hears the sounds of gunfire and violence: the Nazis are liquidating the ghetto, taking the last remnant of the Jewish community to concentration camps and death camps. Poldek takes about a dozen Jews into the sewer to hide. The Jews—the Chiger family, faithless husband Janek, Janek's mistress Chaja, a tough guy named Mundek who has smuggled goods to Poldek, a woman named Klara that Mundek is sweet on, and others—continue to give Poldek their money and goods in payment for him bringing them food and supplies. But what will Poldek do when their money runs out?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Poldek is a petty thief and a black marketer who dislikes Jews. The dire necessity of the moment brings out the best in him, and after Mr. Chiger tells him they have no money left to pay him with, he takes care of them for free.
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 Ask a Stupid Question...: Little Krystyna Chiger may be a terrified child, but she still gets off a good bit of snark when Poldek finds her and her smaller brother in the sewer and Krystyna tells him they're lost.
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 Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The bulk of it is big enough for people to walk around upright, although sometimes they have to crawl through connecting tunnels.
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 Based on a True Story: A pretty accurate rendition of how one Pole saved ten Jews by hiding them in the sewers. One of the women in the sewer really did smother a newborn baby.
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