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Defiance(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-12-31
68%
1847 Votes
Time: 2h 17m
Freedom begins with an act of defiance
Overview:
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.
Languages: German, Russian, English.
Countries:
United States of America
Budget: $32,000,000.00
Revenue: $51,155,219.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Grosvenor Park Productions
Defiance Productions
Pistachio Pictures
Movie: Defiance
Top 10 Billed Cast
Daniel Craig
Tuvia Bielski
Liev Schreiber
Zus Bielski
Jamie Bell
Asael Bielski
Alexa Davalos
Lilka Ticktin
Allan Corduner
Shimon Haretz
Mark Feuerstein
Isaac Malbin
Tomas Arana
Ben Zion Gulkowitz
Jodhi May
Tamara Skidelsky
Kate Fahy
Riva Reich
Iddo Goldberg
Yitzhak Shulman
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