Defiance
Summary: Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-com...
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Director:
Edward Zwick
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: R
Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 32,000,000
Domestic: $ 28,644,813
International: $ 22,617,938
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