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Nov 23, 2011 · Defiance (1/8) Movie CLIP - For My Parents (2008) HD - YouTube. Movieclips. 61.1M subscribers. Subscribed. 4.1K. 686K views 12 years ago. Defiance movie clips: http://j.mp/1L58qh3 BUY THE...
Jan 16, 2009 · With Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos. Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
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Jun 12, 2014 · Defiance (2008) - Movie. movieclipsFILMD. 8 videos 87,347 views Last updated on Jun 12, 2014. Inspired by a true story, director Edward Zwick's epic World War II drama Defiance tells the...
Nov 23, 2011 · Defiance (8/8) Movie CLIP - To the Rescue (2008) HD - YouTube. Movieclips. 61.2M subscribers. Subscribed. 5.6K. 1.6M views 12 years ago. Defiance movie clips: http://j.mp/1L58qh3 BUY THE...
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In August 1941, several weeks after Nazi Germany launched its invasion into USSR, Einsatzgruppen sweep behind the relentlessly advancing German forces across the occupied parts of western Soviet Union, systematically exterminating the Jewish population. Among the Jewish survivors not staying in German-enforced ghettoes are the Bielski brothers: Tuv...
Zwick began writing a script for Defiance in 1999 after acquiring film rights to Tec's book. He developed the project under the banner of his production company Bedford Falls Productions, and the project was financed by the London-based company Grosvenor Park Productionswith a budget of $32 million. Paramount Vantage acquired the rights to distribu...
Critical response
Rotten Tomatoes reports that 59% of critics gave the film a positive review based upon a sample of 189; the average score is 5.91/10. The site's consensus states: "Professionally made but artistically uninspired, Ed Zwick's story of Jews surviving WWII in the Belarus forest lacks the emotional punch of the actual history." At Metacriticthe film has received an average score of 58/100 based on 34 reviews, which it assessed as mixed reviews. Critic A. O. Scott of The New York Times called the f...
Box office
Defiancemade $128,000 during its two weeks of limited release in New York City and Los Angeles. It made $10 million during its first weekend of wide release in the United States, and by the end of its box office run, the film made approximately $52 million worldwide.
Accolades
On January 22, 2009, the film received a nomination for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score for its soundtrack by James Newton Howard. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Scorefor 2008.
In Darkness - a film dramatising Leopold Socha, a sewer worker in the then Polish city of Lwów, who sheltered Jews in the city's sewer systemDefiance at IMDbDefiance at AllMovieDefiance at Box Office MojoDefiance at MetacriticJan 16, 2009 · In 1941, Nazi soldiers are slaughtering Eastern European Jews by the thousands. Three brothers, Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber) and Asael (Jamie Bell), manage to escape and take refuge...
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Edward Zwick. Daniel Craig. Liev Schreiber. Jamie Bell. Defiance is a riveting adventure that showcases the extraordinary true story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers -outnumbered and outgunned- who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters.
