He had been drawn to the story, which he first read about in a Toronto newspaper nearly a decade ago, by a particularly unlikely detail that he thought would also intrigue Ms. вЂњAnd as a filmmaker I had also seen the future limits of the description of that reality,вЂќ as big-budget, big-name English-language productions like вЂњSchindlerвЂ™s ListвЂќ and вЂњThe PianistвЂќ later seemed to set a new template for how the Holocaust was being depicted on film.Д«ut David Shamoon, a Canadian advertising executive who had written the screenplay, his first to be produced, and taken it to Ms.

Holland, 63, explained during a recent trip to New York to promote вЂњIn Darkness,вЂќ which opens on Friday. вЂњIt was very costly, painful to spend two years of your life or more in this world, which certainly changes something in your body and soul,вЂќ Ms. She had already made two films about the Holocaust, вЂњAngry HarvestвЂќ in 1985 and вЂњEuropa EuropaвЂќ in 1990, both of which were nominated for Academy Awards, and she had no desire to revisit that wrenching subject. AT first the Polish film director Agnieszka Holland wanted nothing to do with the script that became вЂњIn Darkness,вЂќ a new drama based on the true story of Jews in Poland who escaped the Nazis by hiding in sewers.

In darkness 2011