DEFIANCE (2008)

Cast

Plot

The true WW2 story of how a Jewish group led by the Bielski brothers, including many women, oldies and children, survived for 4 years in the then Polish, now Belorussian, forests, lived in dugouts, built a kitchen, a mill, a bakery, a bathhouse, a medical clinic for the sick and wounded and a quarantine hut for typhus sufferers. The film has rather twisted reality, introducing action and battle scenes that never took place, and totally ignores both the role of the Polish partisans, causing some outrage amongst nationalists in Poland, and that the Bielski family had acted as administrators for the earlier Soviet invasion. But ignore the politics, this is a heart warming and heroic tale of survival, it's a shame more effort couldn't have been put into the cinematic values, but watch and enjoy.