Freedom begins with an act of defiance
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Daniel CraigTuvia Bielski
- Liev SchreiberZus Bielski
- Jamie BellAsael Bielski
- Alexa DavalosLilka Ticktin
- Allan CordunerShimon Haretz
- Mark FeuersteinIsaac Malbin
- Tomas AranaBen Zion Gulkowitz
- Jodhi MayTamara Skidelsky
- Kate FahyRiva Reich
- Iddo GoldbergYitzhak Shulman
Crew
- Edward ZwickDirector
- Clayton FrohmanWriter
- Edward ZwickWriter
- Eduardo SerraDirector of Photography
- James Newton HowardOriginal Music Composer
- Steven RosenblumEditor
- Edward ZwickProducer
- Pieter Jan BruggeProducer
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