Defiance Page #4

Synopsis: On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live, not only with the fear of discovery, contending with neighboring Soviet partisans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. Women, men, children, the elderly and the young alike are all hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forests in the darkest times of German-occupied Eastern Europe.
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Director(s): Edward Zwick
Production: Paramount Vantage
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
2008
137 min
$28,622,873
Website
1,309 Views


What difference does it make, as

long as you can get your medicine?

Come back to us.

You're my brother!

So you remember.

Merciful God, we commit our friends

Ben Zion and Krensky to your care.

We have no more prayers,

no more tears, we have run out of blood.

Choose another people ...

We have paid for each of your commandments. We

have covered every stone and field with ashes.

Sanctify another land.

Choose another people.

Teach them the deeds and the prophecies.

Grant us but one more blessing.

Take back the gift of our holiness.

Chaya, this ammount is sh*t.

Take your hand and dig it to the bottom of the pot...

- Get off me!

- ...and give me some of the meat!

- Let me go!

Arkady, get your hands of her!

What d'you think you're doing, huh?

Pitcher, who do you think you are?

- I am in charge here, get back in line.

Go away, little man!

I'll take the skin of your face!

- C'mon, then!

- I will slit your throat!

Get back!

Put that away! Put it away!

So, what is happening here?

Those who risk their lives to bring back food

deserve a larger portion...

than those who risk nothing!

- Everybody gets the same portion!

Not when your little b*tch is serving!

- She is my wife!

- Shut up!

Everybody gets the same.

Anybody caught stealing will face consequences.

What consequences?

- Off rations. One week.

Both of you!

- What?!

You questioning me?

This matter is settled. Now, get back in line.

Get back in line!

Tuvia, I would never ...

- I know!

- So then why am I to be punished?

On food missions they take first for themselves

and only bring back what's left over.

And they spread rumors that

you are power hungry... and corrupt ...

that you take whatever woman you choose.

That we keep the gold for ourselves ...

- What? What?!

What else?

- That you are no longer fit to lead us.

Maybe they're right.

Zus should've punched them senseless.

- Yes, I know.

Well, I miss him.

- He made his choice.

Lova... What happened?

Who did this to you?

Gramov, Dueltof ...

I used the officers' latrine.

They said they won't sh*t in the same hole as a Jew.

When do we eat? Where is our food?

Lazar, you will eat with the rest

of the women and the malbushim.

I'll be there now.

The village Idiot. Lazar...

I saw him trying to impress the girls...

and he slipped over and landed right in the ditch...

Chaya, you look lovely today.

Thanks you, that looks delicious.

And you look delicious.

What happened?

Arkady ...

What is this?

New policy. Fighters

get better food.

But that is against my orders.

You're no longer commander.

As long as I am leader of this group,

you'll obey my commands.

There will be no complaining, no sitting, no doing nothing.

Anyone who wants to leave, leave now!

Take his body into the woods,

leave it for the wolves.

Do it now!

Your fever broke in the night.

The medicine helped.

How long was I asleep?

- Two days.

You nest me?

I should get up.

- No, no, no ...

Did you study nothing?

- I was at university.

What did you do before the war?

My wife ...

her father... he had a business and...

And she has passed?

- Yes.

I'm sorry.

What did you study at the university?

Music.

You should rest.

Thank you.

- My pleasure.

Who's got the soap? I know there is a little bit left, but...

- Use the sand, Chaya. Is good for your skin.

And look at that skin! And married already.

Look at me, I've turned into a skeleton.

When we get out of this forest,I'm going to eat

only cake and and grow as big as a house.

Tamara, come! Join us. At least the sun is warm.

I can't, Lilka.

- Why?

I am pregnant.

- I had no idea.

I've been hiding it for moths, but... it's obvious now.

It could come any day.

- Who's the father?

It happened when I was escaping.

There was a man with a gun. Stopped me.

What will happen when Tuvia finds out?

He will understand.

- No, you mustn't tell him.

No, I will tell him.

I feel this new life inside me.

It's the only thing keeping me going.

And I woun't give it up.

Lazar says he spotted another patrol. They're getting closer.

You hear that?

She promises not to take extra food.

- This is against my orders!

So you're going to shoot her, too?

Please, Tuvia. The baby is all she has to live for.

I cannot allow it.

You must let it live.

- I cannot keep the living alive!

Tamara and the man who fathered this child

are responsible for it.

They must leave.

- She was raped ...

by the Germans.

You tell us to hold on to our humanity.

No to become like animals.

And what better way than by bringing a life

into this world of suffering and death?

It is our only hope.

Allright.

- Thank you, Tuvia.

I know it was expected of the women here, yet you never touched me.

- Ok...

I am not afraid of anything, Tuvia.

I'm not even afraid of you.

You call that a move?

I call it an inevitable conclusion based

on an unimpitcheable process of reasoning.

The question ...

my friend the genius ...

is what are you going to do about it?

- I'm thinking about what I am going to do about it.

I got him.

- Tuvia!

We found this one and two of

his friends by the second bridge.

We killed two. Aron was

hurt, but he's a brave little soldier.

We found this.

- You allright?

Look what we have here.

They found this in his pouch.

You read this!

You're looking to Jews, huh? Look, we are all Jews.

What's he going to do now, huh?

Look at him!

They've assigned an entire

division to surround the forest.

Don't they have a war to fight?

- The assault begins in two days.

Passover. How fitting!

He says he has a wife and two small children.

- So did I!

If you let him go, he

will lead them back here.

Allright! Ask if he promise not to reveal our location.

He will say anything!

We want justice!

- Justice!

My son's name was David, he had blue eyes ...

he was only 15.

Justice!

My brother's name was...

I don't know what's going to happen to us.

It doesn't matter.

If I had stayed in the

ghetto, I would be dead.

You saved my life.

No. You have saved mine.

Zus, what are we doing?

Retrieting.

- What for?

I don't know.

And where will we go?

But the children of Isr...

Children of Israel ...

were afraid to leave Egypt.

Untill Moses said,

"do not trust in me" ...

"Trust in God."

"He will take care of you."

And that is why tomorrow ...

we will celebrate the Passover

by sitting around and arguing.

Just as we had done for centuries.

Did it see us?

- I do not know.

Tomorrow is Passover, yes?

- So?

Moses, the Exodus. He left

before the Pharaoh could stopped them.

You want to move them all?

The old, the sick... They'll never make it.

- We'll leave now.

Spread the word.

Shimon, this is it. We're going!

Children, up, up!. Let's go!

We are leaving! Tell your

parents that we are going. Now!

I want every child counted for.

But how will they keep up?

- We carry them, if we have to. Come on!

Hurry, please!

Hurry!

Incoming!

Come on, go in there.

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