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A final battle ground is built for three brothers who are on the run from Nazi troops.

The Scoop

Three Jewish brothers escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.

Based on the true story of the Bielski partisans, covered by author Nechama Tec in the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans. They do manage to build a village and save some 1,200 Jews and other fugitives.

Starring

Daniel Craig, George MacKay, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Allan Corduner

Reminds me of

Schindler’s List, Magneto, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen

Official Site

Defiance

Oh The Irony

The only surviving Bielski brother, Aron was jailed in 2007. As of June 2008, together with his wife Henryka Bell, Aron Bielski is facing a sentence of up to 90 years imprisonment.

Now 80 and known as Aron Bell, he and his wife Henryka, 58, are accused of tricking Janina Zaniewska into giving them control of more than $250,000 in various bank accounts.

According to police, the couple took the woman to her native Poland after telling her she was going on holiday, but instead dumped her in a nursing home there before returning to Florida and spending virtually all her money.

The charges against the couple carry up to 90 years in prison but Mr Bell’s legal team insist he strongly denies the allegations and said the old woman was going senile.

Trailer

http://www.defiancemovie.com/

We Think

The movie leaves out incredible amounts of historical detail and facts such as .. oh.. a little thing called “the Naliboki massacre”. Also, in reality, the resistance mostly chose to flee the German troops rather than fight them as indicated in the trailer and plot. Hollywood is sugarcoating a disgusting time in history and giving an uninformed movie audience more lies