Defiance 2009 Movie

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 one thousand Jewish non-combatants. More details

Directors

Edward Zwick

Cast

Daniel Craig Liev Schreiber Jamie Bell Alexa Davalos

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action drama history thriller war partisan hiding polish jew anti semitism shoah jewish resistance year 1942 nazi collaborator nazi occupation jewish hero firearm nazi soldier nazi officer british actor playing foreigner nazi uniform automatic weapon gunfire reference to franklin d. roosevelt cobbler the shoemaker forest jewish camp nazis escape food village survival genocide blood splatter marsh battle shot in the shoulder explosion reference to david and goliath playing violin hanged man stabbed to death stabbed in the chest stabbed in the leg shot in the back murder of family shot to death character repeating someone else's dialogue year 1941 black and white scene written by director chess death of loved one landmine punched in the crotch man crying black and white segues into color starvation jewish history drunkenness blood minsk belarus violence horse police station knife reference to moses bathing in a stream teacher student relationship drinking hatchet ss bunker reference to god family dinner campfire hand grenade rape victim four brothers vengeance barn revenge brother brother relationship frostbite digging a grave hardship medicine arm sling collaborator faith friendship bread aerial bombardment vodka comrade shootout death of wife snow commander axe corpse haystack urination illness byelorussia newsreel footage farmer prejudice hunger pistol machine gun dog intellectual group photo rain communist exodus brigade book river traitor accountant ambush nurse baby hammer punched in the face nazi face slap belarus red army lynching binoculars shot in the arm subtitled scene prologue refugee jewish wedding slow motion scene bomb military swastika sacrifice star of david fistfight beating family relationships rifle death murder mass grave film starts with text no opening credits tank air raid retaliation exploding body shaky cam world war two what happened to epilogue war victim shot in the head shot in the chest self sacrifice russian soldier resistance fighter pregnant from rape judaism jewish ghetto husband wife relationship holocaust guerilla warfare german soldier execution beaten to death anti semitic slur killing an animal male female relationship animal attack death of child death of son death of mother death of father based on true story based on book russian murder of a police officer one word title

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