this film is a rare one as it centers on jews fighting back during ww2. sure you have the recent "Defiance", but this is a fight in the ghetto not the wast woods. a great cast makes this a memorable film that dramatizes the Warsaw ghetto uprising. mo... (read more) this film is a rare one as it centers on jews fighting back during ww2. sure you have the recent "Defiance", but this is a fight in the ghetto not the wast woods. a great cast makes this a memorable film that dramatizes the Warsaw ghetto uprising. more people should see this.

Good movie...I would have rathered a better ending, but after all you can't change what really happened, and there was no good ending in real life.

Warsaw, Poland, April 1943: Since 1939 the Jews of Warsaw have lived in what is known as the Warsaw Ghetto, a small piece of Warsaw forced to house 300,000+ people. Dieses and starvation are rampant as is abuse by German soldiers and the Jewish Polic... (read more) Warsaw, Poland, April 1943: Since 1939 the Jews of Warsaw have lived in what is known as the Warsaw Ghetto, a small piece of Warsaw forced to house 300,000+ people. Dieses and starvation are rampant as is abuse by German soldiers and the Jewish Police who collaberate with the Nazi's. After mass deportations to Treblinka begin. part of Hitler's Final Solution, the Jews of Warsaw realize they have but one choice, to take up arms and make their tormentors pay dearly for every life they take...thus begins the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, destined to last 6 weeks (longer then Polands Armed Forces lasted, and about as long as France fought before surrendiring), the largest instance of Jewish resistance to the Final Solution.

Excellent depiction of the events leading up to and during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, that sadly leaves out much. Filmed in the same style as most modern war movies, the cast here is good. Hank Azaria as Mordechai Anielewicz leader of the Jewish Fighting Group (ZOB, the only group shown though others are alluded to, historically ZOB fought alongside the ZZW or Jewish Military League), and David Schwimmer as his deputy. Leelee Sobieski and Stephen Moyer play young resistance fighters. Donald Sutherland (possably the strongest performance) is Adam Czerniakow head of the Ghetto Administration who fears violence will only worsen the plight of the Jews and attempts to placate the Nazi's. Jon Voight is SS Gen. Jurgen Stroop who commanded Axis forces during the Uprising, well Cary Elwes turns in a great performance as Fritz Hippler a Nazi Propagandist (and director of The Eternal Jew a film designed to help pave the way for the Holocaust).

Sadly there are a couple major flaws. In an effort to make the Uprising seem even more heroic director Jon Avnet depicts the Germans as Wehrmacht soldiers backed by Tiger tanks. Historically the German forces consisted of SS Police, reserve units of the Wehrmacht, trainees, and police from not only Warsaw but Latvia, Lithuania and Ukrainian Police. These where not the elite of ether the Wehrmacht or SS, though this in no way diminshes the courage of the Ghetto Fighters. More unforgivable is the depiction of the Poles who are shown as indifferent to the Jews in the Ghetto, ignoring the fighting there, leaving them to die. In reality the Polish Home Army and the Communist People's Guard supported the Ghetto Fighters (and vice-versa) attacking German units outside the Ghetto and even taking part in the fighting in the Ghetto. In addition Henryk Iwanski of the Home Army smuggled in supplies, helped smuggle Jews out, took part and was wounded in the fighting and lost his brother and son in the fighting. In 1964 he was bestowed with the title Rightious Amongst the Nations by Israel. That Iwanski and the Home Army where not included is irksome. That the Polish resistances contributions to the Uprising are ignored, and the Home Army depicted as indifferent is unforgivable.

Still this is one of the few movies to depict this chapter of World War II so if you have an interest in this type of movie do seek it out.

Es una tv-movie estupenda,me la compré por el reparto y no te defrauda.No me canso de ver buen cine histórico con tantos héroes anónimos.

Incredible That It Is A True & As Close Account As You Might Get To A Moment Often Glossed Over As It Doesn't Have All The Bravado Of War. It Is A Good Account & Pays Homage To Some Whom Were Just Slaughtered & Walked Over By Nazi-Germany In There Ob... (read more) Incredible That It Is A True & As Close Account As You Might Get To A Moment Often Glossed Over As It Doesn't Have All The Bravado Of War. It Is A Good Account & Pays Homage To Some Whom Were Just Slaughtered & Walked Over By Nazi-Germany In There Oblitaration Tyrade. I Was Saddened To See They Had No Hope Of Survival.