Defiance

Stars
3
Rating
R
Author
Nechama Tec (book); Edward Zwick and Clayton Frohman (screenplay);
Length
136 min
Director
Edward Zwick
Defiance
Synopsis
"Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants." [amazon.com] "The Bielski partisans were a unit of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought the German occupiers and their collaborators around Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus). The partisan unit was named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who organized and led the community. The Bielski partisans spent more than two years living in the forest. By the end of the war they numbered as many as 1,236 members, most of whom were non-combatants, including children and the elderly. The Bielski partisans are seen by many Jews as heroes for having led as many refugees as they did away from the perils of war and the Holocaust. However, as their relations with the non-Jewish population were strained and occasionally violent, their wartime record has been the subject of some controversy in Poland." [Wikipedia]
Genre
Historical
Released
2008
Location
Belarus
Netflix
No

This movie is linked to the following periods

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Begin
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Category
World War II
1939
1945
Wars
The Holocaust
1941
1945
Wars