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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

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Clayton Frohman

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Vantage, Grosvenor Park Productions, The Bedford Falls Company

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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