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Jan 14, 2009 · Written by. "Defiance" is based on the true story of a group of Jews in Belarus who successfully defied the Nazis, hid in the forest and maintained a self-contained society while losing only about 50 of their some 1,200 members. The "Bielski Partisans" represented the war's largest and most successful group of Jewish resisters, although when ...
Defiance. 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 ...
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- Edward Zwick
- R
- Daniel Craig
Dec 31, 2008 · Directed by Edward Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) and adapted for the screen by Zwick and Clay Frohman from the non-fiction book by Nechama Tec, Defiance tells the true story of three brothers Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski who beat incredible odds and ultimately kept thousands of Jews safe from being murdered by the **** and their supporters.
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- Edward Zwick
- R
- Daniel Craig
Jan 16, 2009 · Defiance: Directed by Edward Zwick. 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.
- (156K)
- Action, Drama, History
- Edward Zwick
- 2009-01-16
Oct 15, 2013 Full Review Jesse Schedeen IGN Movies With a hefty dose of darkness and some strong character growth on various fronts, this episode really showcased Defiance's storytelling potential.
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- April 15, 2013
- Grant Bowler
The film is exciting, shot with skill and a singular ability to show the harrowing savagery and heroic behavior that lived and breathed in the early 1940s. Defiance is less successful when it zeroes in on the stories of the individual people who make up the refugee community.
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