Defiance
It is the story of that man named Defiance on Tuvia Bielski, a normal citizen turned into a hero. This man has a perfect experience when he tries to turn a group of war refugees into strong freedom fighters at that time. When this man died along with his brother Zus. Now, both people are paying hundreds of civilians to join their ranks against the Nazi regime in that period.
5 August 1975, Tel Aviv, Israel
21 December 1961, Vilnius, Litovskaya SSR, USSR
22 March 1971, Copenhagen, Denmark
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
13 July 1949, Zasliai, Litovskaya SSR, USSR
1962, Lithuania
20 April 1889, Braunau am Inn, Upper Austria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
1973, UK
8 May 1975, Camden, London, England, UK
4 September 1972, Marijampole, Lithuania
26 November 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
27 October 1963, Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]
27 March 1940, Kaunas, Lithuania
January 10, 2010
Director Edward Zwick does a fine job presenting the challenges of reality without falling into nostalgia or easy Hollywood heroes.
December 17, 2009
succumbing to Hollywood cliches at the expense of historical truth
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 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.
August 16, 2011
Zwick does not deal in gratuitous grotesquery or far-fetched metaphor. "Operatic" and "surreal" are not in his vocabulary.
January 16, 2009
It's difficult, perhaps impossible, to make a gripping 137-minute epic about people standing around under the trees.
January 16, 2009
As a piece of historical redress, a great service has been done in bringing this narrative to the screen.
October 20, 2010
Defiance is heavy-handed, but emotionally compelling, engaging and inspiring throughout.
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.
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 20, 2009
I felt like these characters were prototypes and not people.
