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Defiance
This film revolves around Defiance Man on Tuvia Bielski, a normal citizen turned into a dangerous hero. Now, this man begins a new experiment by turning a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters. During a short period, this man died along with his brother Zeus, where things turned out completely. This has prompted hundreds of civilians to join their ranks against the Nazi regime in the meantime.
21 December 1961, Vilnius, Litovskaya SSR, USSR
1973, UK
22 March 1971, Copenhagen, Denmark
3 April 1955, Auburn, California, USA
15 August 1956, Bielsko-Biala, Slaskie, Poland
5 August 1975, Tel Aviv, Israel
7 February 1951, Plauciskiai, Pakruojo, Lithuania
28 May 1982, Paris, France
16 November 1963, Landshut, Bavaria, Germany
11 July 1978, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
8 May 1975, Camden, London, England, UK
October 20, 2010
Defiance is heavy-handed, but emotionally compelling, engaging and inspiring throughout.
December 17, 2009
succumbing to Hollywood cliches at the expense of historical truth
August 16, 2011
Zwick does not deal in gratuitous grotesquery or far-fetched metaphor. "Operatic" and "surreal" are not in his vocabulary.
January 10, 2010
Director Edward Zwick does a fine job presenting the challenges of reality without falling into nostalgia or easy Hollywood heroes.
January 16, 2009
Ultimately, the film celebrates and memorializes the survival of something unthinkable, and a group of people for whom defiance meant, at heart, that they would push against the growing darkness and carry on.
March 18, 2011
For all its pomp and ruminating, Defiance isn't really interested in drama. It really just wants to entertain us. But it's not any better at that.
January 20, 2009
I felt like these characters were prototypes and not people.
January 16, 2009
It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to make a gripping 137-minute epic about people standing around under the trees.
June 22, 2013
Zwick wants to tell timeless stories on a grand scale. I know that's not what people want anymore. I know it's not breathtaking. But it's not something many are doing now, and definitely not doing it this well.
January 16, 2009
It's understandable and laudable that they desire not to sensationalize the Bielskis, and they've made a worthy film. But their understated approach makes the struggle seem less urgent than it must surely have been.
January 16, 2009
As a piece of historical redress, a great service has been done in bringing this narrative to the screen.
