In a movie taken from a true story, Daniel Craig (Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, Munich, Road to Perdition, etc) stars as one of four Jewish brothers who escape from Poland into the forests of Belarus during World War II to lead a band of resistance fighters and create a safe haven for Jewish refugees. The real-life sanctuary established by the Bielski brothers saved more than 1,000 Jews from persecution and death in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. A great many war type scenes are shown as the Nazis try everything from Polish & Belarusian Police type actions against the camp. As the fighters from the camp defeat these efforts, finally the Nazis detach a full fighting division of infantry and artillery to destroy the camps and Jewish fighters. Liev Schreiber (Salt, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Taking Woodstock, Mantle, etc) plays another of the brothers in the movie and works perfectly with Craig in their parts. Veteran War Movie director Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Glory, The Siege, etc) directs this movie to perfection and his normal high standards. He shows the hardships in the camps from lack of food to freezing conditions and the working relationships that overcome the hardships. A great movie that many will enjoy-especially students of World War II-as this is an unknown part to most people. Also, War movie devotees as well as action and adventure enjoyees should enjoy it to a high degree. Will definitely give most of these movie watchers a great night of entertainment-and most others will enjoy a top notch acting job in a top notch movie by Craig & Schreiber.Read full review
I bought this movie on E-Bay for about $6(price+shipping). I love war movies and I had heard some good things about this film and read some good reviews. I enjoyed watching the film and felt it was well made. However, it was only a good move and I have seen much better efforts. The acting was good but nothing great. The editing was weak and it felt that the film had been edited for time. The film also had several conflicts going on at once. Between the nazi's and the jews, the jews and the russians, the brothers running the jewish partisans, between the leaders of the jewish partisans, between the religious and secular jews, between the sympathetic and anti-semetic russians etc. All of these conflicts added drama to the story but tended to confuse me and distract from the main issues in the film. While watching this film, I couldn't help but be reminded of a similar and a truley great film, "Come and See." While I can recomend Defiance as a good film, Come and See is a great film.Read full review
Excellent movie about a true story. The Jews were defenseless against those with guns. Too many died during WW2 because of gun confiscation from Jews. Let it never happen again. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I am not Jewish, but I see a need for common self defense and never to trust the Gov't
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I first saw this film when it came out a few years ago and it piqued my interest in Jewish resistance during WWII. The film is the true story of the Bielski brothers. In other circumstances they might have become criminal outcasts of society, the loss of their parents and home turned them into heroes. Defiance is their story; a story of organizing a village hiding in the forests and many lives saved.
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Movie sad, heartwarming, and highly emotional. It makes you also wonder how people could do these things to others only because of for no other reason that they were born a Jew. A must see, a great movie for families and to add to your movie library, I added this to my movie re. Slaves. Amistad.
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