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Moviola > Films > Defiance
Defiance (15) 137 mins"Freedom begins with an act of defiance!" After the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Bielski brothers escape the slaughter and hide in the woods. Soon they are joined by many others, all running from the savagery being inflicted on the Jews. Tuvia (Daniel Craig) disagrees with his brother Zus (Liev Schreiber) over what to do with the growing forest population. Tuvia believes that they must welcome anyone who wants to join them while Zus thinks they should be fighting the Germans. After a major falling out, Zus joins the local Russian partisans - with whom the Bielskis had already completed an informal truce - and Tuvia stays with their forest community. "Defiance is animated as much by an idea as by rousing, emphatic emotions. It is most interesting, and most persuasive, not as a chronicle of heroic action but rather as a series of arguments — mainly between the patient Tuvia and the hot-headed Zus — about justice, righteousness and how a decent society should function." New York Times "A substantial, stirring war film" The Independent Showing:28-Sept Roadwater 13-Nov Brockenhurst 24-Nov Goodworth Clatford Last modified: 04-Aug-2009 |
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