Storyline
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Jacek Koman, Tomas Arana, Allan Corduner, Klemens Becker, Miroslav Lhotka, Mac Steinmeier, Mark Margolis, Liev Schreiber, Mia Wasikowska, Alexa Davalos, Mark Feuerstein, Jodhi May, Kate Fahy, Iddo Goldberg, Iben Hjejle, Martin Hancock, Ravil Isyanov, George MacKay, Jonjo O'Neill, Sam Spruell, Markus von Lingen, Rolandas Boravskis, Algirdas Dainavičius, Aurelija Prasmuntaite, Ina Frismanaite, Ana Goldberg, Rimante Valiukaite, Leonardas Pobedonoscevas, Kristina Bertasiute, Kristina Skokova, Remigijus Bilinskas, Rimgaudas Karvelis, Janina Matekonyte, Leonas Ciunis, Aleksandr Zila, Iveta Nadzeikiene, Clayton Frohman, Marc Levy, Zoe Rosenblum, Sakalas Uždavinys, Saulius Janavicius, Leonidas Kotikas, Dalia Smalskiene, Tadas Kavaliauskas, Matas Cancingeris, Diana Aneviciute-Valiusaitiene, Sigitas Rackys, Vaidas Kublinkas, Valentin Novopolskij, Dalia Michelevičiūtė, Ervinas Martynas Peteraitis, Dmitrij Denisiuk, Antanas Šurna, Dalius Mertinas, Vaidotas Martinaitis, Aldona Bendoriute, Darius Gumauskas, Irmantas Bačelis, Edita Užaitė, Jordan Bielsky, Gediminas Girdvainis, Stanislav Adamickij, Jonas Tamulevicius, Jaroslav Psenicka, Jolanta Dapkūnaitė, Giacomo Strasser, Dmitrti Slepovitch, Arkadij Gotesman, Borisas Kirzeneris, Raimondas Sviackevicius, Vidas Petkevičius
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Reviews
88
Premiere
The perfect antidote to the post-holiday blues. It's exciting, well-acted, touching, and genuine.
75
The battle scenes are well choreographed and contain enough uncertainty to make them genuinely exciting, but one would expect no less from a man who has overseen Civil War engagements (Glory) and Japanese strife (The Last Samurai).
63
A Holocaust film that's light on sentimentality but high on human drama, Defiance tells one of those remarkable survival stories that's so incredible it must be true.
63
The tale of the resistance movement in Belorussia is undeniably inspiring and ideally suited for a cinematic rendering. But Defiance resists bold, passionate storytelling and delivers something rather conventional.
60
That butting of heads, as performed by actors as strong and soulful as Craig and Schreiber, lends Defiance an emotional charge, even as the film itself struggles dramatically to find its way out of those woods.
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