Defiance - I giorni del coraggio

A great story fights its way through thickets of Hollywood banter and sentimentality

A Russian partisan commander looks dismissively at the Bielski brothers, eyeing tough Zus (Liev Schreiber) and tougher Tuvia (Daniel Craig) and proclaiming, "Jews don't fight." "These Jews do," comes the prompt reply, and "Defiance," the new film by Edward Zwick, is determined to prove that point.
Though one of the standard clichés of the Holocaust is that Europe's Jews were exterminated without offering any resistance, historians have gradually uncovered evidence to the contrary, with the Bielskis being the prime case in point. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3588 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 31 dicembre 2008