Uprising Page #9

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:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
UNRATED
Year:
2001
177 min
355 Views


-Yes.

Mira. Hurry.

Hurry. We need reinforcements.

Spread out, and try to outflank them.

Find Zachariah, spread out,

and create a diversion.

Hurry up.

Die!

-The Ghetto is through this.

-Good, lead me.

No, I go no further.

-You have been paid to lead me.

-I show you. That's all.

As a member of the Home Army,

it is my assigned mission...

...to rescue Christian Poles

trapped in the Ghetto.

If you do not wish to cooperate,

then I'll give you a simple choice:

Lead me, or die.

That's your choice.

-Follow me.

-Good decision.

The exits are sealed.

The fighters are all dead.

-Okay, we stay. We fight here.

-Let's go.

-This way.

-Quickly, come on.

How much further

till we get to the Ghetto?

Everything is sealed.

Get everyone into position.

-Does everyone have a gun?

-One person, right over here.

Come on, move! Every exit!

Go see if Tosia and her men

have made any progress.

Move!

There's another wall.

Tosia, have you found an entrance

to the sewer canals?

-Not yet.

-Hurry.

We are.

Mordechai, I don't think they will make it

through soon enough. Sorry.

All right, Julian, take your position.

You've done well.

I wonder if Zivia and her group

made it through.

Zivia will find a way out.

I would have bet

that Kazik found a way back.

He won't disappoint you.

Mira, let me ask you a question.

How do you manage

to always be so positive...

...so optimistic and so supportive?

I'm lucky.

To luck.

To luck.

Go through, right now.

I will get Mordechai.

This way.

If you sense gas...

...cover your faces with a wet cloth

and stay low.

Cover your face

and stay low to the ground.

I found a way out!

I found a way out through the sewer.

Stay low, low to the ground! Keep low!

Save the last bullet for yourself.

Everyone follow me this way!

I found a way out!

Let's give them a greeting

they'll remember.

Kazik.

Tosia.

-You're alive.

-Tosia.

Where are the others?

A few of us made it out of the sewers but...

...Mordechai, Mira, Arie and all the rest,

all died here or in the bunker.

How did you get in?

I thought...

...I was the last Jew in the Ghetto.

The last one.

Kazik, how did you get in?

Through the sewer canals.

-Then you will get us out.

-No.

-Yes.

-No.

-Come.

-No.

Kazik, come.

-I want to stay here.

-There are others who need our help.

Paradise.

This way.

In the tunnel.

All right.

Paradise.

Paradise.

Lost.

Marek?

-Zivia?

-Tosia?

This is a miracle.

-We were lost.

-We've been walking in circles.

What a miracle!

-Kazik, have you been to the other side?

-Yes, he has.

-Then, he is our leader.

-Yes.

All right.

All right, everyone.

Follow Kazik quickly and quietly.

Follow me.

Come, Sarah.

Heil Hitler.

One of Major Hoffle's SS informants says

some of the leaders are still alive.

He heard they were taking

the sewers to the Aryan side...

...to join up with the partisans

and continue the fight.

The Major wanted me to inform you of this

as soon as possible.

You need a truck. We have a truck.

We'll need it for two nights.

Trucks are expensive.

Drivers are expensive.

I thought you might say this.

Wait, wait.

All right, under here.

Stick with your gun. Watch your head.

Come under here. Over here.

-All right, Zivia.

-Is it safe?

You must be quick, the water is rising.

Coming through.

-Where's the boy and the girl?

-They're coming through.

-Sarah.

-Isaac, come here.

I'll go through.

All right, everybody through?

We have to get through quickly!

Coming through!

The children!

It's shut.

It's closed.

Please, don't panic.

Please, be calm.

A little bit further on, it opens out to

a canal at the beginning of the Aryan side.

Well, we are at Prosta Street

on the Aryan side...

...but there is no one waiting for us

up above.

I cannot hold on any longer.

There's no way to get all these people out

without a truck to get us out of the city.

Kazik, you will go by yourself.

Meet Yitzhak.

-Find an exit.

-Yes, tonight.

-Where is it?

-I don't know, they're late.

We can't afford late.

There's been a delay.

They will try again later.

We must keep everyone calm.

I'll let them know.

Yes, an office. 54 Prosta Street.

Office furniture. Cabinets.

Just the driver, we have our own laborers.

You can.

-We must have water. We must have food.

-It is coming. Stay calm.

-We are doing all we can.

-It is not enough!

I'd rather die on the street

with a German bullet.

You'll do as you are instructed

for everyone's safety. Now, be quiet.

There's another landing.

Go, get out of the water.

The people cannot take anymore!

Silence yourself.

You think I will let your weakness...

...jeopardize the lives of all these people?

Have you any idea the sacrifices they have

made so you can be standing here alive?

-Alive and on the verge of freedom!

-I want to get out!

Don't think for a moment that I'll hesitate

to put a bullet through your skull.

I'll fulfill your wish

if you keep your foolishness up.

-Where's the office? I don't see it.

-In the basement.

What is this?

This is your chance

to be a hero before God.

Drive.

Pull over there.

Please come out quickly and quietly,

and do exactly as Kazik instructs.

Why are we doing this in broad daylight?

Because we are.

You're mad.

You're right.

-Are there many more?

-Yes.

How many?

Forty on this landing

and a dozen on another.

-We can't wait.

-They'll come.

-We can't wait.

-I promised them.

-Just one more minute.

-One minute and then we leave.

-I'll get them.

-But we have no time.

I'll get them.

Quickly.

Twenty more.

Come, come, come.

This is an operation

of the Polish underground.

And I believe in Santa Claus.

Well, Santa,

this is a pistol I am pointing in your ribs.

Do you believe that?

Yes.

Then you also believe that

I won't hesitate to splatter your guts...

...all over these cobblestones

unless you do exactly as I say.

Stay there.

-Into the truck, quickly.

-Ten more.

Hurry, hurry, now.

They're Jews.

That's everyone on this landing,

forty in total. Come, Kazik.

-That's it!

-No, I'm not leaving without them.

You're putting us all at risk!

I'm not asking you. I'm telling you.

Get on the truck!

Zivia, get on the truck.

We'll come back for them. Come.

Go! Go!

Go, go, go!

-They've escaped.

-It seems to be so.

I'll have you communicate

to Reichsfuhrer Himmler...

...that Warsaw will be free of Jews

tomorrow.

My engineers have prepared

the dynamiting of the Jewish synagogue.

Further, I have informed Himmler

that the remainder of our work here...

...will be carried out by the local police

under my control.

Now, you may even receive

a commendation for your efforts.

But between you and me,

you let the bandits get away.

I want everything brought up! Every body,

every corpse, every piece of evidence!

And then seal it shut!

Tighter than a pharaoh's tomb!

And every manhole cover in Warsaw,

I want welded shut! Every single one!

Enough!

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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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