Defiance Page #2

- My family is there.

The ST came without warning.

- It's all gone...

We'd be better off in the ghetto!

At least here we are safe!

- There at least we had hope!

No, here we have hope!

- Do we?

We have no food!

- Tomorrow will be another mission.

Look what's happened last time!

- That was a mistake. The mistake will not be made again!

How do you know?

We may be here a long time, so

we have to prepare.

- How?!

Better security, better at getting food...

- We don't have weapons, people are getting sick...

In every case, we all have to participate,

but we don't want against each other!

We cannot afford revenge. Not now.

We cannot afford to lose friends,

like Jakov and Peretz.

Or Asael.

We cannot lose anyone.

We will map out where we have been,

so as not to visit the same farms too often, and

we will take only from those who can afford to give

and we will leave those who can't alone.

Our revenge... is to live.

The poorest farmer has more than us ...

- Quiet!

What I'am saying is that

we are no thieves or murderers.

We may be hunted like animals,

but we will not become animals.

We have all chosen this. To live here free,

like human beings, for as long as we can.

Every day of freedom, is like an act of faith.

And if we should die,

trying to live ...

then at least we die like human beings.

Thank God!

Come here! Come here!

Zus! Zus, I can't breathe. I can't breathe!

Look! Look what we found.

Where did you get these?

It is all right.

Please, come. Please!

It is all right.

Give me.

Asael, you've been busy.

- Shut up!

Hello! I'm Zus.

This is Bella and this is Chaya.

- Please, come. You must be hungry.

- Thank you!

And then we fell into this horrible bog.

And Chaya saved me, honestly, I can't swim at all.

Well, we'll have to teach you.

- We must have got lost a dozen times.

It was absolutely designed to die. Tell

him, Chaya, was it not the absolute worst?

And that farmer, a mister ..

- Koscik.

He kept making the most vulgar jokes.

So you're trying to tell me that all politics

is meaningless?

In the west, a monster with a little moustache,

in the east, a monster with a big moustache.

This is all I need to know about politics.

- You Messiah will have a moustache too.

And a full beard.

No. The Messiahs are all in politics

and they are killing us.

You know what's killing me?

Is all of your talking.

And Roosevelt... he has no moustache.

We need to know what's going on in the villages. Where

the Germans are patrolling, who the informants are.

Are you listening to me?

- Yes! Yes...

What's her name?

- Chaya.

What are you doing?

- You gonna talk to her.

I hardly know her!

- You spent three days in a cellar with her.

How much do you want to know her?

- Melvin says the Pitznarski grainery is full.

But we still need two guns at least.

- Who's turn is it to go?

Zus.

- You go with him.

Make sure he understands my orders.

Go! Go talk to her. Go!

Hello! How are you?

- I'm good.

- Good!

- How are you?

Leave half. He cannot go to the

Germans empty handed.

Tuvia's orders.

Halt! Who goes there?

- You know who goes there, Lazar! We go there.

You only say "who goes there"

when you don't know who goes there.

Sorry, Zus.

Milk! And eggs!! Chaya, oh brave

men have brought us a feast.

- You can make me blintsis!

Hey! I don't think we've been properly introduced.

Hello.

- Arkady Lubczanski.

You are Chaya?

- Yes.

You're getting a long car ride? Anything you need?

An extra blanket?

No, thank you. I'm fine.

- Something nice and soft?

- No, no. It is allright.

Couldn't help but noticed you don't have a husband yet.

Here?

- A forest husband.

All the other women have chosen already,

they haven't told you about this?

No, but thank you for explaining it.

- Descartes at least provided for the subjective nature of experience.

- Yes. You annoy me, therefore I exist.

Ben Zion.

A new ones just arrived.

They are from Novagrudok.

Your wife. They say

she was killed last week.

I'm sorry.

Thank you for telling me.

Can I join you?

- Of course.

Oh, I... never ..

- You never what?

Do you get lonely out here?

I like the woods.

I get a little bit scared sometimes.

Tell me somethig. why is there a rule

against women having guns?

There aren't enough for the men.

- Women need guns, too.

What for?

For protection.

Women have men for protection.

I want protection.

Men with guns! Men with guns!

Take weapons and ammunition only!

Weapons and ammunition only!!

Ben Zion stay here, with us!

Asael!Keep them moving!Don't stop!

Go, go!

- Keep them moving!

- Quickly, quickly!!

Don't stop till you reach the field! Go! Move, move, move!

- Isaac, keep them moving! Zus, Asael, Ben Zion!

Give up, Bielski! And the rest of you can go free!

You are from Belorussia, pig! Why do you work

together with the Germans against your own people?

For the same reason you

steal from the poor!

To survive!

Next one's to the head!

It will be dark soon. How will

you find your way home then?

They'll be back.

We're left to build a new camp.

Next time you can draw them a map.

- And what does that mean?

It means we should've killed the f***ing milk man.

The policy of diplomacy is sh*t.

Winter is coming and now he have no shelter.

Why?

Because you don't have the stomach to

to do what must be done.

Go! Move...

Where is he taking us?

My feet are going to fall off.

I need volunteers for a scouting party.

So now we are partisanss?

- We'll see.

Here.

- Thank you.

If my friends of the new

Socialists club could see me now ...

I haven't read a book in months.

- I don't read much.

You can ask Shamon.

- I did.

And yet you accept me as commander?

- Who else?

Might I make an observation?

- Please. Observe away.

We need to be strong, yes, but ...

But?

Other things are important, too.

Such as?

- Community.

You have ideas about community?

A few.

More mouths to feed.

- And more young bodies to keep us warm.

Which one is Tuvia Bielski?

I am Tuvia.

None of us knew if you really existed.

Excuse me, my name is Yitzchak Shulman.

- Welcome, Yitzchak!

I am from Baranowicze.

The ghetto is beeing liquidated.

The Germans warned that everyone

will be executed if anyone is missing.

So... the Council stops us

from leaving, but...

every day more people are killed.

My parents.

We will do what we can.

- Thank you very...

- No, no!

Thank you!

- Welcome.

Please, will you help my parents?

I've seen you looking at me. If you were

to rescue them, I will do anything for you.

Anything, please! Please!

And what does it mean? Do what we can?

We will send for everyone who is left alive.

And if there are hundreds, Tuvia?

- Then we will provide.

And when the Germans folow these hundreds, what then?

- I won't let that happen.

You won't let that happen!

- No! I will bring them out myself. From the ghetto.

From the ghetto?

- Yes!

So... You are Moses, ha?

Zus, go back to work, you're wasting time.

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