6.5 Score

2008 • 2h 17min • R • Action, Drama, War, History

Defiance

"Freedom begins with an act of defiance"

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.

IMDb 7.1

RT 59%

MC 58

Director

Edward Zwick

Writers

Clayton Frohman

Edward Zwick

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Daniel Craig

Tuvia Bielski

Liev Schreiber

Zus Bielski

Jamie Bell

Asael Bielski

Alexa Davalos

Lilka Ticktin

Allan Corduner

Shimon Haretz

Mark Feuerstein

Isaac Malbin

Tomas Arana

Ben Zion Gulkowitz

Jodhi May

Tamara Skidelsky

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Liev Schreiber Zus Bielski

Jamie Bell Asael Bielski

Alexa Davalos Lilka Ticktin

Allan Corduner Shimon Haretz

Mark Feuerstein Isaac Malbin

Tomas Arana Ben Zion Gulkowitz

Jodhi May Tamara Skidelsky

Kate Fahy Riva Reich

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Martin Hancock Peretz Shorshaty

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