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In August 1941, several weeks after Nazi Germany launched its invasion into USSR, Einsatzgruppen sweep behind the relentlessly advancing German forces across the occupied parts of western Soviet Union, systematically exterminating the Jewish population.
On the run and hiding in the deep forests of German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers assist a large community of Jewish refugees and then face the almost impossible task of foraging for food and weapons required for survival over the winter.
Defiance. Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.
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- Action, Drama, History
- Edward Zwick
- 2009-01-16
Defiance is a melting pot of human and alien cultures and insists on remaining neutral between the Western hemisphere's two major nation-states: the human-dominated Earth Republic, centered in New York City, and the alien-dominated Votanis Collective, headquartered in Brazil.
Jan 14, 2009 · “Defiance” is based on the true story of a group of Jews in Belarus who successfully defied the Nazis, hid in the forest and maintained a self-contained society while losing only about 50 of their some 1,200 members.
The Bielski brothers undertook one of the largest and most impressive rescue operation of Jews during World War II. Yet, until recently their story has been largely unknown. In 1941, the three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their deaths.
Defiance: Created by Kevin Murphy, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Michael Taylor. With Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran. Life in the city of Defiance, in a near future after the arrival of different alien lifeforms to Earth.
