Defiance
“Freedom begins with an act of defiance”
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.
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Cast
73 people
Daniel Craig
Tuvia Bielski
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Liev Schreiber
Zus Bielski
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Jamie Bell
Asael Bielski
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Billy Elliot
Alexa Davalos
Lilka Ticktin
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Allan Corduner
Shimon Haretz
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Mark Feuerstein
Isaac Malbin
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Tomas Arana
Ben Zion Gulkowitz
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Jodhi May
Tamara Skidelsky
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Kate Fahy
Riva Reich
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Iddo Goldberg
Yitzhak Shulman
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Iben Hjejle
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Peretz Shorshaty
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Edward Zwick Director · Clayton Frohman Writer Nechama Tec Author
Worldwide gross $51M · Budget $32M · United States release December 31, 2008
Box office
Budget
$32,000,000
Worldwide gross
$51,155,219
Gross vs. budget
1.6×
Production
Paramount Vantage
Production · Studio
Grosvenor Park Productions
Production
Defiance Productions
Production
Pistachio Pictures
Production
Bedford Falls Productions
Production
Bedford Falls Company, The
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Russian
Release dates
Canada · December 31, 2008
Theatrical
United States · December 31, 2008
Theatrical
Australia
September 19, 2009 · Theatrical
Austria
April 24, 2009 · Digital
Brazil
May 8, 2009 · Theatrical · IMDB
Estonia
February 27, 2009 · Theatrical
France
January 14, 2009 · Theatrical
Germany
April 22, 2009 · Theatrical
Ireland
January 9, 2009 · Digital
Italy
January 23, 2009 · Theatrical
Japan
February 14, 2009 · Theatrical
Netherlands
January 8, 2009 · Theatrical
August 21, 2009 · Physical · Blu ray
August 26, 2009 · Physical · DVD
April 21, 2011 · TV · RTL 7
Norway
April 3, 2009 · Theatrical
Philippines
July 26, 2015 · TV · ABS-CBN (Sunday's Best)
Slovakia
August 30, 2024 · Digital · VOYO
South Korea
January 8, 2009 · Theatrical
Spain
January 9, 2009 · Theatrical
Switzerland
February 26, 2009 · Digital
United Kingdom
January 9, 2009 · Theatrical
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