US (2008): Drama/War

Based on an extraordinary true story, DEFIANCE is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell star as brothers who turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential - a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. -- Official site

Screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Edward Zwick, from Nechama Tec's book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans; produced by Pieter Jan Brugge & Edward Zwick; directed by Edward Zwick. (Grosvenor Park/Bedford Falls, Paramount Vantage)

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