Defiance
This movie starts out with two brothers who go home and find there family has been killed by the SS. They take their younger brother who was hiding under the floor boards and go into the forest. They meet up with their oldest brother and take refuge in the forest.
Pretty soon they start finding other run aways in the forest. They take them in and the older brother, Tuvia, goes to get food and weapons. He finds out which SS man killed his family and goes to his house and kills him and his two sons.
More and more people start coming to the camp and a group of people tell one of the brothers, Zus, that his wife and child were killed. Throughout the rest of the movie he is very vengeful and angry all the time.
Things at the camp start getting a little crazy. People are hungry and anxious and even more people keep showing up, making more mouths to feed. Soon they run into the Soviet Army and soon some of the Jewish men leave to go fight with the Soviets, including Zus.
Winter comes and life for the Jewish refugees gets even harder. They get short on food, the weather is very cold, and some of the people they helped escape from the ghetto are talking about going back. Things get even worse when they find out that the Germans have the forest surrounded and they plan on attacking on Passover.
The Soviets that Zus is fighting for decide that they are going to retreat and not help the Jews when the Germans attack. This makes Zus pretty angry. One day the Germans attack the camp, first with planes then the infantry advances. The Jews put up a great fight with the help of Zus and a few men. They escape by trudging through water. They live in the forest for another 2 years.
I thought this was a really good movie. It definately showed how desperate people can get when they have lost all hope. It also showed a lot of courage and determination to not give up even when things seem impossible.
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