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Synopsis: Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an evocative memoir of his role in the rebellion that held back the Nazis for almost a month in 1943. The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. An overhead tracking shot shows the number of people assembled in the first months of the relocation. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed, and the rudiments of resistance are planned by a handful of the young, including Edelman. Following some sporadic
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Jon Avnet
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 16 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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UNRATED
Year:
2001
177 min
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and then we'll see which side he's on.

Zachariah will observe him.

If he fails, we'll execute him...

...like the others who have been

exceptionally cruel to their own people.

If he succeeds, keep him in uniform.

It could prove useful

to have a policeman working for us.

We want you to go undercover

to the Aryan side...

...to smuggle weapons into the Ghetto.

-Are you willing to do that?

-Yes.

-Good.

-She has no family anymore, no one left.

This is a map of Treblinka.

You must get it to one of our couriers,

and it must travel to England.

Do you see your name?

-Viatia.

-Viatia Savitska.

Viatia Savitska.

You are to hide this map inside your shoe.

Do you understand?

-Do you know what night this is?

-No.

I think it might be Friday night.

We didn't light the Sabbath candles.

I don't have any Sabbath candles.

-Good night.

-Good night.

I forgot to ask your name.

It's Viatia.

And you are?

Frania.

Good night, Frania.

I say that we just go out in broad daylight,

and we shoot as many as we can.

Forget dying in a blaze of glory.

Why give them the satisfaction

and make it easy on them?

We should wait as long as possible

so we can acquire more weapons and train.

No, we have to organize an escape

to the woods...

...create a larger organization

and fight them from outside the Ghetto.

No, we'll never make it on the outside.

We'll be sold out,

informed on and slaughtered.

I think we should take them all hostage...

...and make them listen

to German folk music really loud...

...until they lose their minds and give up.

This is serious.

Every day of peace in the Ghetto

is another day...

...that we can prepare

for the organized attack of the future.

Look, we need to send a series

of messages to the Jewish police...

...to the Jewish Council,

to our own people in the Ghetto...

...and to the Nazis. And we need to do it

right now, we can't wait.

They have to know who we are,

and that we mean business.

Even if that means using up....

-All the weapons?

-Yes, even if it means this.

Then we just have to pray.

For what?

For Tosia to get the map out of the Ghetto.

And for Tosia and Arie to smuggle

more weapons back in.

Go in the shack.

Come on, go in the shack.

-Place of work?

-The Schmidt foundry.

-Location?

-Chmielna 2.

Give me your coat and dress.

Now the rest.

Do you want these, too?

Shoes.

I said, shoes.

Do you want me to use this?

Another one.

Another one!

A Jew has escaped.

We must capture him now. Quickly.

Get dressed and get out of here. Quickly.

Where are you going?

To work. I just passed my inspection.

Hey, Jew, what are you selling today?

-How close are we to the plant?

-A couple of blocks.

-You're lucky.

-Lucky?

Most people who go to that guard shack,

don't come out.

I think this is where you take

your armband off and leave us.

Are you going to turn me in?

No.

Viatia. Viatia, it's Kazik.

I couldn't get close to the gate.

It wasn't safe. I had to follow your wagon.

Come. Walk.

Blackmailers up ahead.

-We need to laugh.

-Laugh?

Yes. Jews look down.

Jews look sad. Jews avert their eyes.

Blackmailers can smell fear.

So, can you laugh?

Try again.

No. Try to do it big, like this.

I said, sleep! Not sheep. Sleep.

Not bad.

Keep practicing.

Viatia, this is Michael Klepfisch.

-Hello.

-Nice to meet you.

Arie Wilner.

-We've met.

-Get to know them both well.

So, he was good.

I wanted to arrange a meeting

with your boss Szerynski.

Can you accomplish this?

Yes.

Good.

I'm sorry if it's....

It's been in my shoe for a couple of days.

Gives it character.

Do you realize that this map of Treblinka

will travel by special courier...

...all the way

to Prime Minister Churchill himself?.

With the other documents he has,

hopefully...

...it will persuade the Allies

to give us weapons we need...

...to bomb the German trains,

and hopefully the death camps themselves.

Do you understand now?

Yes.

Come on, Zach. Zygmunt, let's go!

Captain Szerynski,

I have a message for you...

...from the Jewish Fighting Organization.

For your traitorous activities,

and collaboration with the enemy...

...you have been tried in a court

of your people and condemned to death.

-Goodbye.

-Goodbye?

Papa!

Is it too heavy?

No. I can carry it.

But what if it gets dropped?

-You wouldn't want to drop dynamite.

-I know, but what if something falls?

You wouldn't want something to fall.

-What if it gets bumped?

-Bumped could be okay.

Good work.

Good job, Calel.

Calel, welcome.

-Welcome to the family, Calel.

-Now the Germans will come to us.

Lady, wait. Hold on.

-Thank you.

-Let's go. Quickly, lady.

Good. Remember:
One round,

one German. No wasted rounds.

Okay, front row kneels.

-All right. Steady.

-Tosia.

-Viatia.

-It's okay. You're with friends here.

Steady, and fire!

Mordechai, Tosia has brought us gifts.

Perfect timing. When can we expect more?

Arie said there'd be

another shipment momentarily.

-He will smuggle them personally.

-Good.

Steady, and fire!

I said, aim.

It's very important to aim. Arguably,

almost as important as firing itself.

Marek, look what Tosia has brought us.

Good rule of thumb:

Never pat the bomb-maker on the back...

...while he's working, okay?

What's this?

Dynamite. Excellent.

I also need potassium chlorate.

I also need...

-...bottles. Can you get me those?

-Yes, I'll try.

I also need a new set of lungs.

Marek used to work in the lab

at the hospital.

This is more fun.

Anything else, Mr. Engineer?

-More. Just more of everything.

-More.

You are all under arrest!

Put down your bombs and return

immediately to the Umschlagplatz!

Heil Hitler!

So, that'll bring us here, right?

Who is that girl with the pistol?

Devorah Baron. She's with Marek

and Gutman at the brushmakers.

That's such a coincidence.

I was thinking that I should be stationed

at the brushmakers.

Don't you agree, boss?

Intelligence estimates that there are only

I am disappointed, Col. Von Sammern.

There are so many.

They sabotaged our factories,

they attacked our soldiers.

There and there. Look. You see?

And another.

Now, we have an understanding,

Col. Von Sammern?

Now, can I rely on you to make sure

that Warsaw is free of these vermin?

Absolutely.

It's a blockade. We are surrounded.

Mordechai! It's a blockade.

We are surrounded.

All right. Let's go!

Guns up here, ammo as well.

Let's do it.

This is the moment we've been waiting for.

Pay attention. Keep the guns out!

-Don't forget ammo.

-Zachariah, go with Kazik.

Clara, let's go. Clara, come on!

Out! Out!

Get in the line! "Get in the line," I said!

Up here! There are Jews inside!

-Where is he?

-They're inside.

Here.

Out!

Look out! Move!

Look out!

Get down!

Look out!

Come on, come and get me!

Come and get me!

Come on!

-Come on, it's enough. Let's go!

-No!

Let's go! Now!

We will fight later. Come on!

Now!

Yitzhak, he's dead. Come.

Please.

Get him off. Arie.

-Enough!

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Paul Brickman

Paul Brickman (born April 23, 1949) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for the film Risky Business, which he wrote and directed. more…

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