Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up

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Movie
German title Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up
Original title Defiance
Country of production United States
original language English , Russian , German
Publishing year 2008
length 137 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Edward Zwick
script Clayton Frohman ,
Edward Zwick
production Edward Zwick,
Pieter Jan Brugge
music James Newton Howard
camera Eduardo Serra
cut Steven Rosenblum
occupation

Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up (reference title: Unbeugsam - Defiance ) is a war film by Edward Zwick from 2008. It is set in the eastern regions of Germany- occupied Poland (now Belarus ) during World War II . The film is an adaptation of the book Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec , which is based on the story of the Bielski Partisans . Tec's book describes how Polish Jews come together to seek protection together and to oppose the German occupation of their homeland.

In Defiance - For My Brothers Who Never Gave Up , Daniel Craig , Liev Schreiber , Jamie Bell and George MacKay play four Jewish brothers from Poland who try to escape persecution by the Nazis and attack them in order to save more Jews. Shooting began in early September 2007. The film was first shown (only to a limited extent) in the USA on December 31, 2008 and had its international release on January 9, 2009. In Germany, the film opened on April 23, 2009.

action

The plot of the film is based on the fate of the Bielski partisans as "a true story" , which the film reproduces in an approximately one and a half year time segment. In July 1941 German troops advance into the part of Poland (now Belarus ) which has been occupied by the Soviets since 1939 . The mass murder of the Eastern European Jews begins. The four Bielski brothers Tuvia , Zus, Asael and Aron escape the local police officers who murdered their parents under the orders of the occupation forces . They flee into the woods and swear to avenge their parents.

In the woods, the brothers take over the protection and leadership of a refugee group, which continues to grow in the course of the following year. They rob surrounding farms for food and supplies and relocate camps when they are threatened. Tuvia kills two local police chiefs who are responsible for the death of his parents and calls for the attack on German occupation soldiers and their helpers. In view of her own losses, Tuvia turns away from such an approach again in order not to endanger the Jewish refugees additionally. In the dispute over how to proceed, the second brother, Zus, leaves the Jewish group when winter sets in and joins Soviet partisans . However, there he also experiences anti-Semitism . Both groups agree that the Jews support the partisans with food and the partisans support the Jews with weapons.

After a winter full of disease and hunger, German units attack the forest camp with dive fighter planes . When the partisans evacuate their camp, contrary to the previous agreement, some Jews under Asael's leadership hold up the German troops while those in hiding flee. Only a few survive and rejoin the group. When she was attacked again in the marshland, she was unexpectedly saved from an ambush by a partisan attack: Zus, disappointed by Soviet anti-Semitism, and some comrades decided to stand up for the persecuted. At the end of the film, the survivors flee into the woods again.

The end credits of the film tell of the survival of the approximately 1200 refugees in the vast forests of eastern Poland, and pictures of the Bielski brothers are shown, including Tuvia Bielski in Polish uniform. Asael fell in the battle of Königsberg , Tuvia, Aron and Zus survived and emigrated to America.

Reviews

The film magazine Cinema wrote that the film was the "first action Holocaust film" in which you could feel how seriously and conscientiously the director approached the subject. Zwick set a worthy monument to the Bielski brothers.

The film was also rated positively in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on April 23, 2009. Josef Grübel said that the big plus of the film is the pleasantly pathos-poor staging, the complex characters and that the actors are not heroized.

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online , on the other hand, was not very enthusiastic about the film. Daniel Craig embodies his character "sloppy and hideously one-dimensional" and, as it should be for the plot dictation of the classic action shocker, the muscle man defeats the superiority in the film. In addition, Buß wrote that Defiance did not adhere to the historical guidelines and that “the naivety with which the genocide was functionalized as the background for a male self-assertion drama” contributed to making the film an extremely dubious pleasure.

The film met with criticism, especially in Poland , because the role of the Bielski brothers is portrayed too one-sidedly and too far from historical reality. For example, the Bielski partisans were assumed to be involved in the Naliboki massacre on May 8, 1943, in which 128 Polish civilians were killed by Soviet partisans. However, this involvement could neither be confirmed nor excluded in the course of the investigation by the Polish Institute for National Remembrance . According to the Polish press, there is also no discussion of the role of the Bielskis in the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union . They served as Soviet commissioners and their partisan troops were under Soviet orders. The Bielski partisans were accused of plundering the villages in the region and brutally breaking any resistance from the peasants.

Awards

On January 22, 2009, the film was nominated for an Oscar in the category of best film music . He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award - Best Film Music 2008.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release document for Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 005 V).
  2. ↑ age rating for Defiance - For my brothers who never gave up . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Advertising trailer on ESPN, December 17, 2008, accessed December 17, 2008 at 7:30 pm EDST
  4. ^ Defiance (2008) . Retrieved November 3, 2008.
  5. ↑ Unbending - Defiance . Retrieved April 30, 2009.
  6. ↑ Grübel, Josef: Avenger or Savior . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung (section: SZ Extra) of April 23, 2009. Page 5
  7. ↑ Shooting against the Holocaust . Retrieved April 30, 2009.
  8. ↑ Prawdziwa historia Bielskich . Gazeta Wyborcza . January 6, 2009. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved on April 3, 2014.
  9. ↑ Republika braci Bielskich . Polityka . Archived from the original on February 21, 2010. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  10. ↑ Śledztwo w sprawie zbrodni popełnionych przez partyzantów radzieckich na żołnierzach Armii Krajowej i ludności cywilnej na terenie powiatów Stołpce i Wołożyn (S 17/01 / Zk) ( Memento of June 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Komunikat dot. śledztwa w sprawie zbrodni popełnionych przez partyzantów as well asckich w latach 1942–1944 na terenie byłego województwa nowogródzkiego. ( Memento from June 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for National Remembrance, June 19, 2008
  12. ↑ a b c Sueddeutsche.de
  13. ↑ Wojna polsko-ruska pod bokiem niemieckim . Gazeta Wyborcza . January 13, 2009. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
  14. ^ The Guardian , March 5, 2009 “Jewish resistance film sparks Polish anger”
  15. ↑ The Times , December 31, 2008, “Country split over whether Daniel Craig is film hero or villain”