Defiance

Drama, War

Three Jewish brothers escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger. Tuvia (Robert's father), Zus and Asael – who in 1941 found themselves in Belorussia (modern day Belarus) being overrun suddenly by the Nazis as they moved east. Members of their own immediate family had been shot by German soldiers, while thousands of other Jews were being corralled into ghettoes where only death and starvation awaited them. The Bielski brothers, however, resisted.