Defiance (2008 film)
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| Directed by | Edward Zwick |
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Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec |
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| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Eduardo Serra |
| Edited by | Steven Rosenblum |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Vantage |
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137 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32 million |
| Box office | $51.2 million |
Defiance is a 2008 American War film directed by Edward Zwick set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Zwick was based on Nechama Tec's 1993 book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by Polish Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Belarus during the Second World War. The film stars Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bielski.
Production began in early September 2007. After a limited release, e.g. Los Angeles, New York City, in the United States on December 31, 2008 it went into general release worldwide in January and February 2009.
The film is based on a true story, beginning in August 1941. Nazi Einsatz-Gruppen (task forces) are sweeping through Eastern Europe, systematically killing Jews. Among the survivors not killed or restricted to ghettoes are the Polish Jewish Bielski brothers: Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron. Their parents are dead, killed by local police under orders from the occupying Germans. The brothers flee to the Naliboki Forest, vowing to avenge the deaths of their parents.
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