1. Everything You Need To Know About DEFIANCE Cast, Crew, Story, Theme, Review Muse-En-Scene, Life Connections

2. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. MPAA Rating: R for violence and language DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

3. DANIEL CRAIG as Tuvia Bielski, t DANIEL CRAIG as Tuvia Bielski, the reluctant leader DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce ALEXA DAVALOS as ALEXA DAVALOS as Lilka who fights for what she believes in

4. MIA WASIKOWSKA as Chaya MIA WASIKOWSKA as Chaya, a city girl, who captures Asael’s heart as they hide in a cramped root cellar DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce JAMIE BELL as Asael the middle Bielski brother who is very focused on uniting the family

5. LIEV SCHREIBER as Zus Bielski who is always driven to fight DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

6. DIRECTOR EDWARD ZWICK  His films include Glory, Legends of the Fall, Courage Under Fire, The Siege, The Last Samurai and Blood Diamond DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

7. Cinematographer EDUARDO SERRA Blood Diamond, Cinematographer EDUARDO SERRA  His work includes: Blood Diamond, Syriana, Girl With a Pearl Earring DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

8. WARTIME RELATIONSHIPS Those who have lost loved ones look to each other in their need. The concept of the “forest wife” and “forest husband” took hold – relationships were sometimes forged as much out of practicality as romance. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

9. Based on an extraordinary true story, "Defiance" is an epic tale of family, honor, vengeance and salvation in World War II. The year is 1941 and the Jews of Eastern Europe are being massacred by the thousands. Managing to escape certain death, three brothers take refuge in the dense surrounding woods they have known since childhood. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

10. There they begin their desperate battle against the Nazis. Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber and Jamie Bell star as brothers who turn a primitive struggle to survive into something far more consequential – a way to avenge the deaths of their loved ones by saving thousands of others. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

11. At first it is all they can do to stay alive. But gradually, as whispers of their daring spreads, they begin to attract others – men and women, young and old – willing to risk everything for the sake of even a moment's freedom. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

12. Tuvia (Craig) is a reluctant leader and his decisions are challenged by his brother, Zus (Schreiber) who worries that Tuvia's idealistic plans will doom them all. Asael (Bell) is the youngest – caught between his brothers' fierce rivalry. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

13. As a brutal winter descends, they work to create a community, and to keep faith alive when all humanity appeared to be lost. DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

14. THE COMMUNITY AS A CHARACTER Director Ed Zwick: “The community itself is a character that begins to express its own will and identity; a fascinating dynamic develops between the expression of an individual’s needs and the group’s survival as a whole” DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

15. JOHN FORD STYLE Producer Pieter Jan Brugge: “There’s something in the story that has elements of the old John Ford films – this idea that you’re not just a rugged, isolated individual but that it’s important where you stand in relationship to others and your community” DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

16. Consensus voice: “Whatever its shortcomings, the film should be seen as a testimony to the true story of Jews who lived in a Belarus forest for years during the Holocaust” --Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

17. ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES “The real legacy of the Bielskis is that so many people are here on earth who might never have lived.” -- Zvi Bielski, one of Zus’ sons DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

18. TESTIMONY FOR DEFIANCE! TESTIMONY FOR DEFIANCE! None of us would wish hardship on anyone. Disasters that cripple human existence are exactly that –disasters! So, it is always amazing to hear of acts of endurance, survival, compassion and solidarity that come out such situations as portrayed in Defiance. Inspiring, to be sure. In stark contrast to the murderous persecution by the Nazis, there is the heroic life-giving saga of the Bielski partisans. I give the highest praise the producers of this film who have given us a testimony of those who stood in defiance to Hitler’s evil. Here the kind of inspiration we all need, to be sure. DEFIANCE Review © David Bruce

19. “Really, this is not a film about death and dying but about surviving and living as fully as you can.” -- Alexa Davalos DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce

20. “Even in the most trying of times, especially in wartime, love and longing are never absent” -- Director Ed Zwick DEFIANCE ©2008 Paramount Vantage. Review © David Bruce