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Defiance

Defiance

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2008

Runtime

2h 17m

Genres

Action, Drama, History, War

User Score

68%

Original Title

Defiance

Production Companies

Paramount Vantage, Grosvenor Park Productions, Defiance Productions, Pistachio Pictures, Bedford Falls Productions

Director

Edward Zwick

Budget

$32,000,000

Revenue

$51,155,219

Description

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.