Directed by Agnieszka Holland
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Starz)
Long, brooding account of a group of Jews forced to hideout in the sewers of a Polish city when the Germans "cleanse" the ghetto. A Polish sewer worker seizes the opportunity to make a load of cash by bringing them food and keeping them safe. Eventually he comes to see their humanity and even like them, and his transformation is the best part of the film. However, it is marred by explicit sex scenes tangential to the plot, graphic violence and too much shaky cam work, all an attempt to give it a modern "edge" but instead almost ruining an otherwise excellent film.
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