Defiance (2008) Daniel Craig & Liev Schreiber as The Bielski Partisans Attack the Police Station HD

Defiance is a 2008 American war film directed by Edward Zwick set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany. The screenplay by Clayton Frohman and Zwick was based on Nechama Tec’s 1993 book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans, an account of the Bielski partisans, a group led by Polish Jewish brothers who saved and recruited Jews in Belarus during the Second World War. The film stars Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bielski. Production began in early September 2007. After a limited release, e.g. Los Angeles, New York City, in the United States on December 31, 2008, it went into general release worldwide in January and February 2009.[2] In August 1941, Nazi Germany’s Einsatzgruppen are sweeping through Eastern Europe systematically killing European Jews. Among the survivors not killed or restricted to ghettoes are the Jewish Bielski brothers: Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron. Their parents are dead, killed by local Schutzmannschaft under orders from the German occupiers. The brothers flee to the Naliboki forest, vowing to avenge the deaths of their parents. Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski[3] Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski[4] Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski[4] George MacKay as Aron Bielski[2] Alexa Davalos as Lilka Ticktin, a Polish refugee and Tuvia’s love interest[4] Allan Corduner as Shimon Haretz, the brothers’ old schoolteacher Mark Feuerstein as Isaac Malbin, an intellectual Tomas Arana as Ben Zion Gulkowitz, a resistance leader[4] Jacek Koman as Konstanty “Kościk“ Kozłowski Mia Wasikowska as Chaya Dziencielsky, Asael’s love interest Iben Hjejle as Bella, Zus’s love interest Jodhi May as Tamara Skidelski, a cousin of the Bielskis who had been raped by a Nazi soldier Kate Fahy as Riva Reich Iddo Goldberg as Yitzhak Shulman Sam Spruell as Arkady Lubczanski Ravil Isyanov as Viktor Panchenko, Russian partisan commander, roughly based on the real life partisan figure, Nikolai Mayakov[citation needed] Rolandas Boravskis as Gramov, the second-in-command of the Russian partisans Kristina Skokova as Red Haired Woman Coletti’s Combat Aircraft