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Mar 04, 2013BertBailey rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Another very good flick about the murkiness below the surface of pretty much all of us, when pressed by circumstances. About a group of Jews who hide in the Lvov sewers during the Nazi occupation of Poland. The characters are, one and all, imperfect: every shade of gray, ranging from bad to worse, given the dire circumstances of wartime: racist Poles (who aren't altogether heartless), unreliable Jews (who of course are the locus of the movie's sympathy), Ukrainians driven to brutality as Nazis (er, unredeemed, except by inference from Stalinism), etc. In fact, it's one of the few 2nd World War films chock full of villains where German Nazis hardly play a part -- which, in some parts of Europe during that hell, would be 100% true to the facts. Bleak but well worth watching.