Defiance

2008 137 min Action, Drama, History, War

Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

IMDb 7.1 RT 58 Metacritic 58

budget $32,000,000 earnings $51,155,219 return 1.6x

director Edward Zwick

writers Clayton Frohman, Edward Zwick

cast