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Synopsis: On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German-occupied Poland and Belorussia (World War II), the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live, not only with the fear of discovery, contending with neighboring Soviet partisans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. Women, men, children, the elderly and the young alike are all hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold and unforgiving forests in the darkest times of German-occupied Eastern Europe.
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Director(s): Edward Zwick
Production: Paramount Vantage
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
2008
137 min
$28,622,873
Website
1,212 Views


You want to kill Germans?

Come with me. Unless you're still afraid to use that rifle.

Stay there! Stay there!!!

We must get what we need without killing.

This will not bring your family back.

- Blood for blood.

You've had yours.

- And I can still see their faces.

Vengeance is mine. Who said that to you?

- Oh, what? This is God's work you're doing now, Zusia?

No, only you can do that.

Take a few lives, spare a few others...

We must not become like them!

- No, but at least we can kill like them.

Are you coming with us or not?

It's coming! It's coming!

Now we are real partisans.

To the Bielski Otriad!

- Cigarettes!

Get his rifle!

Sh*t! He's going the wrong way!

We can't just leave him!

- We have no choice! Go!

They thought you were bringing food.

Farmers stop you? Hm?

They had guns? Dogs?

- No.

I don't understand.

The Talmud says if you save a life, you must

take responsability for it.

Again, I have no ideea

what you're talking about.

Oh, yes. I think you do.

And now your little brother is gone.

How did you get past Lazar?

- Who?

You worthless piece of sh*t!

Enough!

He went right by you! Someone could have been killed!

- I said enough!

Get up! Get up!

He should be shot.

If we were real partisans, you'd be shot, you hear that?

You stupid little piece of f***!

He made a mistake!

Mistake? We can not make mistakes, Tuvia.

- Like last night, Zus?

First they will torture Asael and then they will hang him.

You are Tuvia Bielski?

You know me?

- We heard of you in Vielnow.

Vielnow? My sister is in Vielnow!

- My family is there.

The ST came without warning.

- It's all gone...

We'd be better off in the ghetto!

At least here we are safe!

- There at least we had hope!

No, here we have hope!

- Do we?

We have no food!

- Tomorrow will be another mission.

Look what's happened last time!

- That was a mistake. The mistake will not be made again!

How do you know?

We may be here a long time, so

we have to prepare.

- How?!

Better security, better at getting food...

- We don't have weapons, people are getting sick...

In every case, we all have to participate,

but we don't want against each other!

We cannot afford revenge. Not now.

We cannot afford to lose friends,

like Jakov and Peretz.

Or Asael.

We cannot lose anyone.

We will map out where we have been,

so as not to visit the same farms too often, and

we will take only from those who can afford to give

and we will leave those who can't alone.

Our revenge... is to live.

The poorest farmer has more than us ...

- Quiet!

What I'am saying is that

we are no thieves or murderers.

We may be hunted like animals,

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