Defiance (2008) Movie Script
What do we do?
Shut up!
We've got to get home. Go!
Come on, it's safe.
Let's go!
Stop it! Asael, Stop it!
Stop! You want to cry? Stop!
Aron, let's go!
Tuvia! It's Tuvia!
If I was a German,
you would be dead.
- Papa and mama... They killed them!
- I know.
Big brother returns.
You saw them?
Where is your wife and child?
Lodiszcia. Hiding in a cellar.
I'll bring them when it is safe.
- And Rivka?
- She wouldn't leave.
You are still...
- She's still my wife.
A rich wife ...
Tell me, Tuvia. Why've you come back?
- Do you have a plan?
- No. Do you?
The police will be after us.
Tuvia, we've run from the police our whole life,
do you think this is s good time to stop?
We know these woods,
they'll never find us in here.
I told him to stay here!
I miss Papa.
I can't believe he's dead.
- Bernicki.
- We don't know he did it.
- The police captain?
- He always had it in for papa.
- But we don't know that he did it.
- So, we'll go and ask him if he did it.
Koscik has a pistol,
he showed it to me once.
One pistol is nothing. We need
rifles. Machine-guns.
- Machine-guns? What next? You're gonna take on the whole German Army?
- Just because ...
The child is hurt.
Please, lay her down here.
We cannot feed them.
- I'll go ask Koscik for food.
- And the pistol.
And the pistol.
I only have four bullets.
Your father was a good man.
He said the same of you.
Ignore the bitch. To the dead.
God rest their souls.
I live with this, can you imagine?
The barn.
Be quiet!
- I'm sorry, but they have to go with you.
- And what am I suppose to do with them?
Those policemen ...
Where they the one's who killed my parents?
You people... Why is it so fucking hard
beeing friends with a Jew?
Try beeing one.
Who is he?
Where are we going?
You sat at the back, in school...
- I am Shamon Haretz.
- I thought you were dead.
I'm at least half dead.
I heard you speaking of your parents.
I am very sorry.
The other brothers... What was he's name?
The wild one.
- Zus. He's with the other two.
- You are hiding here, in the forest?
There has been trouble before, maybe. With the police?
So you go to the forest. A wise choice.
A wise choice. For a stupid school boy.
My whole life I presumed to teach others
the right way to live.
I had no doubt this is God's way.
This isn't.
You'll forgive me if recent events had
somewhat shaking my resolve.
Just like school. I have no
idea what you are talking about. Please, let's go!
Here. You're not hungry?
Your little one does not talk?
He saw things.
- I send you for food and you bring more mouths to feed.
- You send me?
- Oh, please...
It was Bernicki who killed papa.
You at least get the pistol.
Only four bullets.
I will have to make them count.
For my parents, David and Bella Bielski.
For my brothers and for all the others.
Only one left.
His sons.
How was it?
- How was what?
- To kill them.
- It was good, no?
- Shut up!
- And what about these others?
- I don't know.
The women would slow us down.
- Your old teacher ...
- What? You're afraid he's gonna
spank you for forgetting your homework?
- We have too much people to move, Tuvia. And quickly.
- I agree, but they're here.
We'll sleep further up the trail. If someone comes
and stumble on them first, then... the gunshots should give
us time to escape.
All right. But no more.
No more.
I know ... I know!
Tamara, you remember cousin Zus.
PLease, go on and sit by the fire.
Alasar, he's Isabel youngest.
And this is Isaac Malbin. He's from Minsk.
- Tuvia! Tuvia!!
- Asael, find them something to eat!
- Tuvia, I have pity for them all, but ...
- They're family.
And how will we feed this family?
We'll water the soup.
- And this one. She's family?
- No.
..the fuck!
Have you never used a hammer before?
- Aah... no.
- What is that you do?
I suppose you'd have to say I was... am an intellectual.
This is a job?
I.. I published a small magazine.
Actually, a journal.
More like a pamphlet.
Tuvia! This is Lyla.
Lyla is my forest wife.
I see.
Congratulations.
- Interesting concept...
- As long as his village wife stays in hiding.
Hello, boys! What can we do for you?
Food. We want food.
This little shits are holding us sap.
You have the balls to shoot me, little shit?
- We have food, we have food!
- No...
No, I want to see if this little shit
has the balls to shoot me.
You like to shoot Jews, little shit, ha?
- You are Jews?
- No, we're the Gestapo.
- Put down the gun.
- Or perhaps you prefer we'd shove it up your ass?
- Hey! Look at me. Where are you from?
- Polidiska. We haven't eaten in two days.
My name is Peretz. This is Jacov.
Two days ago, there were 3000
Jews in Polidiskya and now... there are 50.
Me and him we... hid in a wall.
You know a woman?
Sonya Bielski?
We knew her.
There was a child ...
- My child. I should have protected... I...
- No...
Sonya!
Mama ... Papa ...
So many dead.
- I know.
Why not us?
- I don't know.
Better to be hiding in the woods...
like rabbits ...
Hunted.
We're looking for partisans.
What is the name of your otriad?
What is an otriad?
- It's an armed brigade.
- We heard the Russians are
beginning to organize.
- Here?
- And also in Delepikanska.
Then we are the Bielski otriad.
You want to join?
The Russians are fighters.
- But you need a gun to join them.
They sabotage railroads and kill Germans.
You want to kill Germans?
Come with me. Unless you're still afraid to use that rifle.
Stay there! Stay there!!!
We must get what we need without killing.
This will not bring your family back.
- Blood for blood.
You've had yours.
- And I can still see their faces.
Vengeance is mine. Who said that to you?
- Oh, what? This is God's work you're doing now, Zusia?
No, only you can do that.
Take a few lives, spare a few others...
We must not become like them!
- No, but at least we can kill like them.
Are you coming with us or not?
It's coming! It's coming!
Now we are real partisans.
To the Bielski Otriad!
- Cigarettes!
Get his rifle!
Shit! He's going the wrong way!
We can't just leave him!
- We have no choice! Go!
They thought you were bringing food.
Farmers stop you? Hm?
They had guns? Dogs?
- No.
I don't understand.
The Talmud says if you save a life, you must
take responsability for it.
Again, I have no ideea
what you're talking about.
Oh, yes. I think you do.
And now your little brother is gone.
How did you get past Lazar?
- Who?
You worthless piece of shit!
Enough!
He went right by you! Someone could have been killed!
- I said enough!
Get up! Get up!
He should be shot.
If we were real partisans, you'd be shot, you hear that?
You stupid little piece of fuck!
He made a mistake!
Mistake? We can not make mistakes, Tuvia.
- Like last night, Zus?
First they will torture Asael and then they will hang him.
You are Tuvia Bielski?
You know me?
- We heard of you in Vielnow.
Vielnow? My sister is in Vielnow!
- My family is there.
The ST came without warning.
- It's all gone...
We'd be better off in the ghetto!
At least here we are safe!
- There at least we had hope!
No, here we have hope!
- Do we?
We have no food!
- Tomorrow will be another mission.
Look what's happened last time!
- That was a mistake. The mistake will not be made again!
How do you know?
We may be here a long time, so
we have to prepare.
- How?!
Better security, better at getting food...
- We don't have weapons, people are getting sick...
In every case, we all have to participate,
but we don't want against each other!
We cannot afford revenge. Not now.
We cannot afford to lose friends,
like Jakov and Peretz.
Or Asael.
We cannot lose anyone.
We will map out where we have been,
so as not to visit the same farms too often, and
we will take only from those who can afford to give
and we will leave those who can't alone.
Our revenge... is to live.
The poorest farmer has more than us ...
- Quiet!
What I'am saying is that
we are no thieves or murderers.
We may be hunted like animals,
but we will not become animals.
We have all chosen this. To live here free,
like human beings, for as long as we can.
Every day of freedom, is like an act of faith.
And if we should die,
trying to live ...
then at least we die like human beings.
Thank God!
Come here! Come here!
Zus! Zus, I can't breathe. I can't breathe!
Look! Look what we found.
Where did you get these?
It is all right.
Please, come. Please!
It is all right.
Give me.
Asael, you've been busy.
- Shut up!
Hello! I'm Zus.
This is Bella and this is Chaya.
- Please, come. You must be hungry.
- Thank you!
And then we fell into this horrible bog.
And Chaya saved me, honestly, I can't swim at all.
Well, we'll have to teach you.
- We must have got lost a dozen times.
It was absolutely designed to die. Tell
him, Chaya, was it not the absolute worst?
And that farmer, a mister ..
- Koscik.
He kept making the most vulgar jokes.
So you're trying to tell me that all politics
is meaningless?
In the west, a monster with a little moustache,
in the east, a monster with a big moustache.
This is all I need to know about politics.
- You Messiah will have a moustache too.
And a full beard.
No. The Messiahs are all in politics
and they are killing us.
You know what's killing me?
Is all of your talking.
And Roosevelt... he has no moustache.
We need to know what's going on in the villages. Where
the Germans are patrolling, who the informants are.
Are you listening to me?
- Yes! Yes...
What's her name?
- Chaya.
What are you doing?
- You gonna talk to her.
I hardly know her!
- You spent three days in a cellar with her.
How much do you want to know her?
- Melvin says the Pitznarski grainery is full.
But we still need two guns at least.
- Who's turn is it to go?
Zus.
- You go with him.
Make sure he understands my orders.
Go! Go talk to her. Go!
Hello! How are you?
- I'm good.
- Good!
- How are you?
Leave half. He cannot go to the
Germans empty handed.
Tuvia's orders.
Halt! Who goes there?
- You know who goes there, Lazar! We go there.
You only say "who goes there"
when you don't know who goes there.
Sorry, Zus.
Milk! And eggs!! Chaya, oh brave
men have brought us a feast.
- You can make me blintsis!
Hey! I don't think we've been properly introduced.
Hello.
- Arkady Lubczanski.
You are Chaya?
- Yes.
You're getting a long car ride? Anything you need?
An extra blanket?
No, thank you. I'm fine.
- Something nice and soft?
- No, no. It is allright.
Couldn't help but noticed you don't have a husband yet.
Here?
- A forest husband.
All the other women have chosen already,
they haven't told you about this?
No, but thank you for explaining it.
- Descartes at least provided for the subjective nature of experience.
- Yes. You annoy me, therefore I exist.
Ben Zion.
A new ones just arrived.
They are from Novagrudok.
Your wife. They say
she was killed last week.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for telling me.
Can I join you?
- Of course.
Oh, I... never ..
- You never what?
Do you get lonely out here?
I like the woods.
I get a little bit scared sometimes.
Tell me somethig. why is there a rule
against women having guns?
There aren't enough for the men.
- Women need guns, too.
What for?
For protection.
Women have men for protection.
I want protection.
Men with guns! Men with guns!
Take weapons and ammunition only!
Weapons and ammunition only!!
Ben Zion stay here, with us!
Asael!Keep them moving!Don't stop!
Go, go!
- Keep them moving!
- Quickly, quickly!!
Don't stop till you reach the field! Go! Move, move, move!
- Isaac, keep them moving! Zus, Asael, Ben Zion!
Give up, Bielski! And the rest of you can go free!
You are from Belorussia, pig! Why do you work
together with the Germans against your own people?
For the same reason you
steal from the poor!
To survive!
Next one's to the head!
It will be dark soon. How will
you find your way home then?
They'll be back.
We're left to build a new camp.
Next time you can draw them a map.
- And what does that mean?
It means we should've killed the fucking milk man.
The policy of diplomacy is shit.
Winter is coming and now he have no shelter.
Why?
Because you don't have the stomach to
to do what must be done.
Go! Move...
Where is he taking us?
My feet are going to fall off.
I need volunteers for a scouting party.
So now we are partisanss?
- We'll see.
Here.
- Thank you.
If my friends of the new
Socialists club could see me now ...
I haven't read a book in months.
- I don't read much.
You can ask Shamon.
- I did.
And yet you accept me as commander?
- Who else?
Might I make an observation?
- Please. Observe away.
We need to be strong, yes, but ...
But?
Other things are important, too.
Such as?
- Community.
You have ideas about community?
A few.
More mouths to feed.
- And more young bodies to keep us warm.
Which one is Tuvia Bielski?
I am Tuvia.
None of us knew if you really existed.
Excuse me, my name is Yitzchak Shulman.
- Welcome, Yitzchak!
I am from Baranowicze.
The ghetto is beeing liquidated.
The Germans warned that everyone
will be executed if anyone is missing.
So... the Council stops us
from leaving, but...
every day more people are killed.
My parents.
We will do what we can.
- Thank you very...
- No, no!
Thank you!
- Welcome.
Please, will you help my parents?
I've seen you looking at me. If you were
to rescue them, I will do anything for you.
Anything, please! Please!
And what does it mean? Do what we can?
We will send for everyone who is left alive.
And if there are hundreds, Tuvia?
- Then we will provide.
And when the Germans folow these hundreds, what then?
- I won't let that happen.
You won't let that happen!
- No! I will bring them out myself. From the ghetto.
From the ghetto?
- Yes!
So... You are Moses, ha?
Zus, go back to work, you're wasting time.
- I'm not the one who's wasting time, Tuvia.
I can't have you questioning me in front of the others.
We're family, we have to stick together.
Why?
So we can die alongside these... malbushim? ("clothes" in hebrew-non combatants)
Don't call them that. They're people, they're Jews.
- Pretentious Jews.
Jews who stucked up their noses at us.
Jews who would go out of their way to
lock their daughters away from our dirty hands.
You are nothing to them, Tuvia!
They only follow you because they are too weak
and afraid to fight for themselves.
And what about Bella?
You think she'd be with you if this wasn't happening?
Don't.
- Is it love, Zus?
... and anyone else who would rather fight than
wait to be killed ...
we are leaving to join those who fight.
Are you coming?
We're not so naive to think
they won't kill some of us.
But all Jews, it makes no sense!
They need us to work
in the factories, in the labor camps.
They're death camps.
We too have heard of such places.
But have you seen them yourself?
Can you tell me with absolute certainty
that we weren't just as likely die out there,
with you, in the woods, with winter coming on?
Do you think we haven't all considered running away?
For anyone who leaves,
they kill 20.
How can I sacrifice thousands,
for the sake of a few?
What if we take you all?
The old? The sick? How will we live?
- We will protect you.
We have made alliances with the russian partisans.
- They are as bad as the Germans.
You are too young to
know the pogroms!
Our only weapon is time.
If I can buy more, we will have won.
You want to time? Fine.
I'll give you time. A day, a
month, maybe even a year.
To live.
Your daughter, Chaya. She's with us.
Your husband is waiting for you
Rabbi, please!
- We are waiting for God.
I am going!
I am going.
Me too.
Come along! Come forward! Please have
your valuables out and ready!
Keep moving!
Come, come! Look, we're not going to bite you!
Mama! Papa!
How about you, grandpa'?
- I'm a watchmaker.
Can you repair guns?
The trigger.
- Maybe.
All right, please come forward! Everyone
have your things out and ready! Yes, please.
But... they were my grandmother's.
- And now they belong to the Otriad.
Everyone sacrifices for the sake of the collective!
We can trade this for food or weapons!
Next!
- How about carpenters? Any bootmakers? Seamstresses?
I am an accountant.
- Well, this should come in handy!
You have a new profession.
- Mazaaltov!
Next!
I am shoemaker.
- Good! You're wellcome.
Yes, please.
- I am a nurse.
Good, you are most welcome.
Friends, this is the
happiest day of my life.
To see you here, safely amongst us.
But there are a few things
you must learn about living here.
When you are rested and settled, you will be assigned work duties.
Everyone will work,
there are no exceptions.
We will help supply our Russian
partisan comrades.
We will mend clothes,
we will repair weapons.
Women will learn to shoot.
And they will fight alongside men.
Pregnancies are forbidden.
We cannot accomodate an infant's needs here.
Today ...
we will start rebuilding the lives you have all lost.
This is the one place in all the Belarussia where a Jew can be free.
We welcome you into our community.
He is a Jew?
- Yes.
Reload!
This is not a gun. To you
it is Barkhovh's spear.
It is Samson's jawbone.
It is Ehud's sword.
It is the slingshot youg David used
to bring down the monster Goliath.
And we will become warriors,
like the Maccabees.
Brave men and women
fighting for their freedom.
As they were.
Fire!
Good.
Now, this here... this is a knight.
He can move... one, two forward
and one to the side ...
Yesterday potatoes with beets,
today beets with potatoes.
Tomorrow - special treat:
potato soup.
Stop complaining, you
wenches, and keep mashing.
We love potatoes, don't we boys?
- Yes, sir!
We love vodka, winches...
Thank you.
Get down!
Put some hairs on your chest.
Not all at once!
-If you want to be a soldier, you drink!
What are you doing?
- Sorry, just having a little drink.
So, a little bird told me ...
that a certain someone is waiting for another
certain someone to ask a certain question.
Hello, Chaya.
- Hello Asael.
Let me take...
- Oh, no, no...
You're sure?
- No, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
May I help you?
Chaya, I was wondering if maybe you ...
I mean... you and I ...
I accept.
You do?
- I do.
Blessed art Thou, our God,
King of the Universe...
Who created Man
in His own image...
And out of Himself fashioned for us
a lasting place.
Blessed art Thou, our God
King of the Universe ...
Who created all things
for His glory...
Oh, gladden these loving mates...
as Thou they anciently gladden
Thay creatures in Eden.
Blessed art Thou, O God ...
Who gladdens the bridegroom and the bride.
Amen.
- Amen.
With this ring, you are consacrated to me.
According to the law of Moses ...
and Israel.
Tuvia, this is it.
This is all we have.
Cover them up!
Some talk of returning to the ghetto.
They've barely eaten for days.
What time is it?
- Do you have an engagement?
Is there any supper?
- Not today.
Tuvia is sending out more food missions.
You follow Tuvia like an old goat.
- I'd rather be a goat than a snake.
Tuvia is doing the best he can.
We should've joined Zus.
- Who's stopping you?
.
What are you're going to do today?
- Today I go on my first food mission.
I will tell Asael to send
someone else.
No, I want to go.
I must go.
Here. You must... you must take this.
To stay warm, please.
Please, take it.
Thank you, Tuvia.
She's the tasy one, you aristocrat.
- What?
We were told: "hands off".
Property of the commander.
Tuvia, I'm beggining to see signs of a new sickness.
Two of the old one's have died this week.
Miriam!
- What happened?
He says it was a patrol.
They're watching the roads.
The Germans are everywhere.
You go back and stay alert!
She will be allright.
Take your food back now and
stay on this side of the river.
But watch out for patrols.
I'll wait here for the others. Good luck!
Halt! Who goes there?
- Lazar, I'm coming from camp.
The danger's out there.
- Sorry, Tuvia.
Any sign of the food mission?
- Not yet.
I think it's typhos. If it is, we
are in trouble.
The lice are carriers.
The partisanss have ampiciline,
but they say they need it for themselves.
I heard you. Medicine.
I'll go see Victor now.
What happened, you allright?
Fine, thank you.
You're too sick.
Stay in the truck.
Make sure it's in gear when I get back.
- No, I'm coming with you.
I give the orders tonight, Tuvia.
You don't have to do this.
I don't? What about the typhos?
- Some will die. They will, anyway.
For luck, take it.
What about the others?
- Drive with the fucking truck!
The others?
Fighters die so that
malbushim may live.
That's what you believe, yes?
- What do you believe?
You're communist now, Zus?
- Communist, zionist, fascist ...
What difference does it make, as
long as you can get your medicine?
Come back to us.
You're my brother!
So you remember.
Merciful God, we commit our friends
Ben Zion and Krensky to your care.
We have no more prayers,
no more tears, we have run out of blood.
Choose another people ...
We have paid for each of your commandments. We
have covered every stone and field with ashes.
Sanctify another land.
Choose another people.
Teach them the deeds and the prophecies.
Grant us but one more blessing.
Take back the gift of our holiness.
Chaya, this ammount is shit.
Take your hand and dig it to the bottom of the pot...
- Get off me!
- ...and give me some of the meat!
- Let me go!
Arkady, get your hands of her!
What d'you think you're doing, huh?
Pitcher, who do you think you are?
- I am in charge here, get back in line.
Go away, little man!
I'll take the skin of your face!
- C'mon, then!
- I will slit your throat!
Get back!
Put that away! Put it away!
So, what is happening here?
Those who risk their lives to bring back food
deserve a larger portion...
than those who risk nothing!
- Everybody gets the same portion!
Not when your little bitch is serving!
- She is my wife!
- Shut up!
Everybody gets the same.
Anybody caught stealing will face consequences.
What consequences?
- Off rations. One week.
Both of you!
- What?!
You questioning me?
This matter is settled. Now, get back in line.
Get back in line!
Tuvia, I would never ...
- I know!
- So then why am I to be punished?
On food missions they take first for themselves
and only bring back what's left over.
And they spread rumors that
you are power hungry... and corrupt ...
that you take whatever woman you choose.
That we keep the gold for ourselves ...
- What? What?!
What else?
- That you are no longer fit to lead us.
Maybe they're right.
Zus should've punched them senseless.
- Yes, I know.
Well, I miss him.
- He made his choice.
Lova... What happened?
Who did this to you?
Gramov, Dueltof ...
I used the officers' latrine.
They said they won't shit in the same hole as a Jew.
When do we eat? Where is our food?
Lazar, you will eat with the rest
of the women and the malbushim.
I'll be there now.
The village Idiot. Lazar...
I saw him trying to impress the girls...
and he slipped over and landed right in the ditch...
Chaya, you look lovely today.
Thanks you, that looks delicious.
And you look delicious.
What happened?
Arkady ...
What is this?
New policy. Fighters
get better food.
But that is against my orders.
You're no longer commander.
As long as I am leader of this group,
you'll obey my commands.
There will be no complaining, no sitting, no doing nothing.
Anyone who wants to leave, leave now!
Take his body into the woods,
leave it for the wolves.
Do it now!
Your fever broke in the night.
The medicine helped.
How long was I asleep?
- Two days.
You nest me?
I should get up.
- No, no, no ...
Did you study nothing?
- I was at university.
What did you do before the war?
My wife ...
her father... he had a business and...
And she has passed?
- Yes.
I'm sorry.
What did you study at the university?
Music.
You should rest.
Thank you.
- My pleasure.
Who's got the soap? I know there is a little bit left, but...
- Use the sand, Chaya. Is good for your skin.
And look at that skin! And married already.
Look at me, I've turned into a skeleton.
When we get out of this forest,I'm going to eat
only cake and and grow as big as a house.
Tamara, come! Join us. At least the sun is warm.
I can't, Lilka.
- Why?
I am pregnant.
- I had no idea.
I've been hiding it for moths, but... it's obvious now.
It could come any day.
- Who's the father?
It happened when I was escaping.
There was a man with a gun. Stopped me.
What will happen when Tuvia finds out?
He will understand.
- No, you mustn't tell him.
No, I will tell him.
I feel this new life inside me.
It's the only thing keeping me going.
And I woun't give it up.
Lazar says he spotted another patrol. They're getting closer.
You hear that?
She promises not to take extra food.
- This is against my orders!
So you're going to shoot her, too?
Please, Tuvia. The baby is all she has to live for.
I cannot allow it.
You must let it live.
- I cannot keep the living alive!
Tamara and the man who fathered this child
are responsible for it.
They must leave.
- She was raped ...
by the Germans.
You tell us to hold on to our humanity.
No to become like animals.
And what better way than by bringing a life
into this world of suffering and death?
It is our only hope.
Allright.
- Thank you, Tuvia.
I know it was expected of the women here, yet you never touched me.
- Ok...
I am not afraid of anything, Tuvia.
I'm not even afraid of you.
You call that a move?
I call it an inevitable conclusion based
on an unimpitcheable process of reasoning.
The question ...
my friend the genius ...
is what are you going to do about it?
- I'm thinking about what I am going to do about it.
I got him.
- Tuvia!
We found this one and two of
his friends by the second bridge.
We killed two. Aron was
hurt, but he's a brave little soldier.
We found this.
- You allright?
Look what we have here.
They found this in his pouch.
You read this!
You're looking to Jews, huh? Look, we are all Jews.
What's he going to do now, huh?
Look at him!
They've assigned an entire
division to surround the forest.
Don't they have a war to fight?
- The assault begins in two days.
Passover. How fitting!
He says he has a wife and two small children.
- So did I!
If you let him go, he
will lead them back here.
Allright! Ask if he promise not to reveal our location.
He will say anything!
We want justice!
- Justice!
My son's name was David, he had blue eyes ...
he was only 15.
Justice!
My brother's name was...
I don't know what's going to happen to us.
It doesn't matter.
If I had stayed in the
ghetto, I would be dead.
You saved my life.
No. You have saved mine.
Zus, what are we doing?
Retrieting.
- What for?
I don't know.
And where will we go?
But the children of Isr...
Children of Israel ...
were afraid to leave Egypt.
Untill Moses said,
"do not trust in me" ...
"Trust in God."
"He will take care of you."
And that is why tomorrow ...
we will celebrate the Passover
by sitting around and arguing.
Just as we had done for centuries.
Did it see us?
- I do not know.
Tomorrow is Passover, yes?
- So?
Moses, the Exodus. He left
before the Pharaoh could stopped them.
You want to move them all?
The old, the sick... They'll never make it.
- We'll leave now.
Spread the word.
Shimon, this is it. We're going!
Children, up, up!. Let's go!
We are leaving! Tell your
parents that we are going. Now!
I want every child counted for.
But how will they keep up?
- We carry them, if we have to. Come on!
Hurry, please!
Hurry!
Incoming!
Come on, go in there.
Are you allright?
I'm allright. My ear ...
Go! Get them all to the bunkers. Go!
- Stay down!
No, no, no! It is over! They're coming. Infantry.
Go, go, go!
We need to hold them up untill the rest are safe.
- Machine guns!
- Yes, with Levine and Miriam! There!
Lazar, Rosa and Shmiel. There and there! And me!
-No! No!
- I want to stay with you.
- No, I must go with them!
- I want to stay with you!
It is too dangerous here to stay!
Rosa ... down there!
No! You go with them, it's not safe here.
Do not try to fight'em as well.
Just slow them down and come and join us.
Chaya please! You go with them now, it's not safe.
- No.
Take her!
Go!
Move, Chaya! Go!
Moshe, quickly! Let me help you. Come.
- Careful!
They're moving to the right!
- Yeah!.
Oh, my God!
We have to keep going.
- The Germans will be here any minute.
Are the others back yet?
Asael?
Tuvia, do we stay or go?
We have to wait for the others.
We can't leave them.
We could hide.
- I say fight them here!
That's crazy.
My father cannot make it.
- There are snakes?
Children?
- We will put them on our shoulders.
Tuvia, what do we do?
- We can't go without the others.
The others are dead.
What are we going to do?
- What's wrong with him?
Do you have a weapon?
- Yes.
- Give it!
Give it to me!
You use this on yourself,
before you let them take you.
Why are we stopping?
- Asael! They're alive!
Someone take her! Take her! They're coming!
They're coming! Why aren't we moving, huh?
We must keep going!
- Through there?
- It is impossible!
Nothing is impossible!
What we have done is impossible!
The troops are coming.
God will not part his waters.
We will do it ourselves.
- How?
Not by miracles!
We will do it together, by our strength.
You! Take the rope of your pack and give it to me.
And you, give me your belt! Quickly!
There's not enough rope, Asael!
- Then we will link arms, we'll make a chain.
But if someone slips?
- The strong will take care of the weak.
Give me your belt.
- Tuvia, give him your belt.
Quiet!
How much further?
You can't sleep here.
You can't time for sleeping now. Come on!
My books.
Asael, look! We've made it!
I have something to say.
- No. You rest, now. Don't talk! Don't talk!
- No. Please.
I almost lost my faith.
But you are sent by God to save us.
Ridiculous.
- I know.
But just in case, I thank Him.
And I thank you ...
Tank! Take cover! Everybody down! Get down!
Get down!
Tuvia, what do we do?
We try and go back across the river?
- No! We stay and fight!
Get the ammunition to the guns! To the guns!
Isaac, take!
Ammunition! Ammunition, there!
Strip the bodies of weapons
and ammunition only. Take this.
Anything else?
- No, we got to get the injured in the forest.
What about the dead?
- We have to keep moving.
Everybody, gather your belongings!
We must get out of the open!
- Shimon!
- Yes, Tuvia?
- Everybody, tell them! Weapons only.
Weapons only!!
Shimon! You've been promoted. Congratulations!
Where is the rest of your unit?
- Good question.
Are you going back?
We have a new camp to build.
Perhaps you have room for one more.
Let's go. Come on.
You see that?
- What?
The forest. Beautiful, isn't it?
Yes it is.
ALWAYS down, THE NUMBER IS GROWING
Shut up!
We've got to get home. Go!
Come on, it's safe.
Let's go!
Stop it! Asael, Stop it!
Stop! You want to cry? Stop!
Aron, let's go!
Tuvia! It's Tuvia!
If I was a German,
you would be dead.
- Papa and mama... They killed them!
- I know.
Big brother returns.
You saw them?
Where is your wife and child?
Lodiszcia. Hiding in a cellar.
I'll bring them when it is safe.
- And Rivka?
- She wouldn't leave.
You are still...
- She's still my wife.
A rich wife ...
Tell me, Tuvia. Why've you come back?
- Do you have a plan?
- No. Do you?
The police will be after us.
Tuvia, we've run from the police our whole life,
do you think this is s good time to stop?
We know these woods,
they'll never find us in here.
I told him to stay here!
I miss Papa.
I can't believe he's dead.
- Bernicki.
- We don't know he did it.
- The police captain?
- He always had it in for papa.
- But we don't know that he did it.
- So, we'll go and ask him if he did it.
Koscik has a pistol,
he showed it to me once.
One pistol is nothing. We need
rifles. Machine-guns.
- Machine-guns? What next? You're gonna take on the whole German Army?
- Just because ...
The child is hurt.
Please, lay her down here.
We cannot feed them.
- I'll go ask Koscik for food.
- And the pistol.
And the pistol.
I only have four bullets.
Your father was a good man.
He said the same of you.
Ignore the bitch. To the dead.
God rest their souls.
I live with this, can you imagine?
The barn.
Be quiet!
- I'm sorry, but they have to go with you.
- And what am I suppose to do with them?
Those policemen ...
Where they the one's who killed my parents?
You people... Why is it so fucking hard
beeing friends with a Jew?
Try beeing one.
Who is he?
Where are we going?
You sat at the back, in school...
- I am Shamon Haretz.
- I thought you were dead.
I'm at least half dead.
I heard you speaking of your parents.
I am very sorry.
The other brothers... What was he's name?
The wild one.
- Zus. He's with the other two.
- You are hiding here, in the forest?
There has been trouble before, maybe. With the police?
So you go to the forest. A wise choice.
A wise choice. For a stupid school boy.
My whole life I presumed to teach others
the right way to live.
I had no doubt this is God's way.
This isn't.
You'll forgive me if recent events had
somewhat shaking my resolve.
Just like school. I have no
idea what you are talking about. Please, let's go!
Here. You're not hungry?
Your little one does not talk?
He saw things.
- I send you for food and you bring more mouths to feed.
- You send me?
- Oh, please...
It was Bernicki who killed papa.
You at least get the pistol.
Only four bullets.
I will have to make them count.
For my parents, David and Bella Bielski.
For my brothers and for all the others.
Only one left.
His sons.
How was it?
- How was what?
- To kill them.
- It was good, no?
- Shut up!
- And what about these others?
- I don't know.
The women would slow us down.
- Your old teacher ...
- What? You're afraid he's gonna
spank you for forgetting your homework?
- We have too much people to move, Tuvia. And quickly.
- I agree, but they're here.
We'll sleep further up the trail. If someone comes
and stumble on them first, then... the gunshots should give
us time to escape.
All right. But no more.
No more.
I know ... I know!
Tamara, you remember cousin Zus.
PLease, go on and sit by the fire.
Alasar, he's Isabel youngest.
And this is Isaac Malbin. He's from Minsk.
- Tuvia! Tuvia!!
- Asael, find them something to eat!
- Tuvia, I have pity for them all, but ...
- They're family.
And how will we feed this family?
We'll water the soup.
- And this one. She's family?
- No.
..the fuck!
Have you never used a hammer before?
- Aah... no.
- What is that you do?
I suppose you'd have to say I was... am an intellectual.
This is a job?
I.. I published a small magazine.
Actually, a journal.
More like a pamphlet.
Tuvia! This is Lyla.
Lyla is my forest wife.
I see.
Congratulations.
- Interesting concept...
- As long as his village wife stays in hiding.
Hello, boys! What can we do for you?
Food. We want food.
This little shits are holding us sap.
You have the balls to shoot me, little shit?
- We have food, we have food!
- No...
No, I want to see if this little shit
has the balls to shoot me.
You like to shoot Jews, little shit, ha?
- You are Jews?
- No, we're the Gestapo.
- Put down the gun.
- Or perhaps you prefer we'd shove it up your ass?
- Hey! Look at me. Where are you from?
- Polidiska. We haven't eaten in two days.
My name is Peretz. This is Jacov.
Two days ago, there were 3000
Jews in Polidiskya and now... there are 50.
Me and him we... hid in a wall.
You know a woman?
Sonya Bielski?
We knew her.
There was a child ...
- My child. I should have protected... I...
- No...
Sonya!
Mama ... Papa ...
So many dead.
- I know.
Why not us?
- I don't know.
Better to be hiding in the woods...
like rabbits ...
Hunted.
We're looking for partisans.
What is the name of your otriad?
What is an otriad?
- It's an armed brigade.
- We heard the Russians are
beginning to organize.
- Here?
- And also in Delepikanska.
Then we are the Bielski otriad.
You want to join?
The Russians are fighters.
- But you need a gun to join them.
They sabotage railroads and kill Germans.
You want to kill Germans?
Come with me. Unless you're still afraid to use that rifle.
Stay there! Stay there!!!
We must get what we need without killing.
This will not bring your family back.
- Blood for blood.
You've had yours.
- And I can still see their faces.
Vengeance is mine. Who said that to you?
- Oh, what? This is God's work you're doing now, Zusia?
No, only you can do that.
Take a few lives, spare a few others...
We must not become like them!
- No, but at least we can kill like them.
Are you coming with us or not?
It's coming! It's coming!
Now we are real partisans.
To the Bielski Otriad!
- Cigarettes!
Get his rifle!
Shit! He's going the wrong way!
We can't just leave him!
- We have no choice! Go!
They thought you were bringing food.
Farmers stop you? Hm?
They had guns? Dogs?
- No.
I don't understand.
The Talmud says if you save a life, you must
take responsability for it.
Again, I have no ideea
what you're talking about.
Oh, yes. I think you do.
And now your little brother is gone.
How did you get past Lazar?
- Who?
You worthless piece of shit!
Enough!
He went right by you! Someone could have been killed!
- I said enough!
Get up! Get up!
He should be shot.
If we were real partisans, you'd be shot, you hear that?
You stupid little piece of fuck!
He made a mistake!
Mistake? We can not make mistakes, Tuvia.
- Like last night, Zus?
First they will torture Asael and then they will hang him.
You are Tuvia Bielski?
You know me?
- We heard of you in Vielnow.
Vielnow? My sister is in Vielnow!
- My family is there.
The ST came without warning.
- It's all gone...
We'd be better off in the ghetto!
At least here we are safe!
- There at least we had hope!
No, here we have hope!
- Do we?
We have no food!
- Tomorrow will be another mission.
Look what's happened last time!
- That was a mistake. The mistake will not be made again!
How do you know?
We may be here a long time, so
we have to prepare.
- How?!
Better security, better at getting food...
- We don't have weapons, people are getting sick...
In every case, we all have to participate,
but we don't want against each other!
We cannot afford revenge. Not now.
We cannot afford to lose friends,
like Jakov and Peretz.
Or Asael.
We cannot lose anyone.
We will map out where we have been,
so as not to visit the same farms too often, and
we will take only from those who can afford to give
and we will leave those who can't alone.
Our revenge... is to live.
The poorest farmer has more than us ...
- Quiet!
What I'am saying is that
we are no thieves or murderers.
We may be hunted like animals,
but we will not become animals.
We have all chosen this. To live here free,
like human beings, for as long as we can.
Every day of freedom, is like an act of faith.
And if we should die,
trying to live ...
then at least we die like human beings.
Thank God!
Come here! Come here!
Zus! Zus, I can't breathe. I can't breathe!
Look! Look what we found.
Where did you get these?
It is all right.
Please, come. Please!
It is all right.
Give me.
Asael, you've been busy.
- Shut up!
Hello! I'm Zus.
This is Bella and this is Chaya.
- Please, come. You must be hungry.
- Thank you!
And then we fell into this horrible bog.
And Chaya saved me, honestly, I can't swim at all.
Well, we'll have to teach you.
- We must have got lost a dozen times.
It was absolutely designed to die. Tell
him, Chaya, was it not the absolute worst?
And that farmer, a mister ..
- Koscik.
He kept making the most vulgar jokes.
So you're trying to tell me that all politics
is meaningless?
In the west, a monster with a little moustache,
in the east, a monster with a big moustache.
This is all I need to know about politics.
- You Messiah will have a moustache too.
And a full beard.
No. The Messiahs are all in politics
and they are killing us.
You know what's killing me?
Is all of your talking.
And Roosevelt... he has no moustache.
We need to know what's going on in the villages. Where
the Germans are patrolling, who the informants are.
Are you listening to me?
- Yes! Yes...
What's her name?
- Chaya.
What are you doing?
- You gonna talk to her.
I hardly know her!
- You spent three days in a cellar with her.
How much do you want to know her?
- Melvin says the Pitznarski grainery is full.
But we still need two guns at least.
- Who's turn is it to go?
Zus.
- You go with him.
Make sure he understands my orders.
Go! Go talk to her. Go!
Hello! How are you?
- I'm good.
- Good!
- How are you?
Leave half. He cannot go to the
Germans empty handed.
Tuvia's orders.
Halt! Who goes there?
- You know who goes there, Lazar! We go there.
You only say "who goes there"
when you don't know who goes there.
Sorry, Zus.
Milk! And eggs!! Chaya, oh brave
men have brought us a feast.
- You can make me blintsis!
Hey! I don't think we've been properly introduced.
Hello.
- Arkady Lubczanski.
You are Chaya?
- Yes.
You're getting a long car ride? Anything you need?
An extra blanket?
No, thank you. I'm fine.
- Something nice and soft?
- No, no. It is allright.
Couldn't help but noticed you don't have a husband yet.
Here?
- A forest husband.
All the other women have chosen already,
they haven't told you about this?
No, but thank you for explaining it.
- Descartes at least provided for the subjective nature of experience.
- Yes. You annoy me, therefore I exist.
Ben Zion.
A new ones just arrived.
They are from Novagrudok.
Your wife. They say
she was killed last week.
I'm sorry.
Thank you for telling me.
Can I join you?
- Of course.
Oh, I... never ..
- You never what?
Do you get lonely out here?
I like the woods.
I get a little bit scared sometimes.
Tell me somethig. why is there a rule
against women having guns?
There aren't enough for the men.
- Women need guns, too.
What for?
For protection.
Women have men for protection.
I want protection.
Men with guns! Men with guns!
Take weapons and ammunition only!
Weapons and ammunition only!!
Ben Zion stay here, with us!
Asael!Keep them moving!Don't stop!
Go, go!
- Keep them moving!
- Quickly, quickly!!
Don't stop till you reach the field! Go! Move, move, move!
- Isaac, keep them moving! Zus, Asael, Ben Zion!
Give up, Bielski! And the rest of you can go free!
You are from Belorussia, pig! Why do you work
together with the Germans against your own people?
For the same reason you
steal from the poor!
To survive!
Next one's to the head!
It will be dark soon. How will
you find your way home then?
They'll be back.
We're left to build a new camp.
Next time you can draw them a map.
- And what does that mean?
It means we should've killed the fucking milk man.
The policy of diplomacy is shit.
Winter is coming and now he have no shelter.
Why?
Because you don't have the stomach to
to do what must be done.
Go! Move...
Where is he taking us?
My feet are going to fall off.
I need volunteers for a scouting party.
So now we are partisanss?
- We'll see.
Here.
- Thank you.
If my friends of the new
Socialists club could see me now ...
I haven't read a book in months.
- I don't read much.
You can ask Shamon.
- I did.
And yet you accept me as commander?
- Who else?
Might I make an observation?
- Please. Observe away.
We need to be strong, yes, but ...
But?
Other things are important, too.
Such as?
- Community.
You have ideas about community?
A few.
More mouths to feed.
- And more young bodies to keep us warm.
Which one is Tuvia Bielski?
I am Tuvia.
None of us knew if you really existed.
Excuse me, my name is Yitzchak Shulman.
- Welcome, Yitzchak!
I am from Baranowicze.
The ghetto is beeing liquidated.
The Germans warned that everyone
will be executed if anyone is missing.
So... the Council stops us
from leaving, but...
every day more people are killed.
My parents.
We will do what we can.
- Thank you very...
- No, no!
Thank you!
- Welcome.
Please, will you help my parents?
I've seen you looking at me. If you were
to rescue them, I will do anything for you.
Anything, please! Please!
And what does it mean? Do what we can?
We will send for everyone who is left alive.
And if there are hundreds, Tuvia?
- Then we will provide.
And when the Germans folow these hundreds, what then?
- I won't let that happen.
You won't let that happen!
- No! I will bring them out myself. From the ghetto.
From the ghetto?
- Yes!
So... You are Moses, ha?
Zus, go back to work, you're wasting time.
- I'm not the one who's wasting time, Tuvia.
I can't have you questioning me in front of the others.
We're family, we have to stick together.
Why?
So we can die alongside these... malbushim? ("clothes" in hebrew-non combatants)
Don't call them that. They're people, they're Jews.
- Pretentious Jews.
Jews who stucked up their noses at us.
Jews who would go out of their way to
lock their daughters away from our dirty hands.
You are nothing to them, Tuvia!
They only follow you because they are too weak
and afraid to fight for themselves.
And what about Bella?
You think she'd be with you if this wasn't happening?
Don't.
- Is it love, Zus?
... and anyone else who would rather fight than
wait to be killed ...
we are leaving to join those who fight.
Are you coming?
We're not so naive to think
they won't kill some of us.
But all Jews, it makes no sense!
They need us to work
in the factories, in the labor camps.
They're death camps.
We too have heard of such places.
But have you seen them yourself?
Can you tell me with absolute certainty
that we weren't just as likely die out there,
with you, in the woods, with winter coming on?
Do you think we haven't all considered running away?
For anyone who leaves,
they kill 20.
How can I sacrifice thousands,
for the sake of a few?
What if we take you all?
The old? The sick? How will we live?
- We will protect you.
We have made alliances with the russian partisans.
- They are as bad as the Germans.
You are too young to
know the pogroms!
Our only weapon is time.
If I can buy more, we will have won.
You want to time? Fine.
I'll give you time. A day, a
month, maybe even a year.
To live.
Your daughter, Chaya. She's with us.
Your husband is waiting for you
Rabbi, please!
- We are waiting for God.
I am going!
I am going.
Me too.
Come along! Come forward! Please have
your valuables out and ready!
Keep moving!
Come, come! Look, we're not going to bite you!
Mama! Papa!
How about you, grandpa'?
- I'm a watchmaker.
Can you repair guns?
The trigger.
- Maybe.
All right, please come forward! Everyone
have your things out and ready! Yes, please.
But... they were my grandmother's.
- And now they belong to the Otriad.
Everyone sacrifices for the sake of the collective!
We can trade this for food or weapons!
Next!
- How about carpenters? Any bootmakers? Seamstresses?
I am an accountant.
- Well, this should come in handy!
You have a new profession.
- Mazaaltov!
Next!
I am shoemaker.
- Good! You're wellcome.
Yes, please.
- I am a nurse.
Good, you are most welcome.
Friends, this is the
happiest day of my life.
To see you here, safely amongst us.
But there are a few things
you must learn about living here.
When you are rested and settled, you will be assigned work duties.
Everyone will work,
there are no exceptions.
We will help supply our Russian
partisan comrades.
We will mend clothes,
we will repair weapons.
Women will learn to shoot.
And they will fight alongside men.
Pregnancies are forbidden.
We cannot accomodate an infant's needs here.
Today ...
we will start rebuilding the lives you have all lost.
This is the one place in all the Belarussia where a Jew can be free.
We welcome you into our community.
He is a Jew?
- Yes.
Reload!
This is not a gun. To you
it is Barkhovh's spear.
It is Samson's jawbone.
It is Ehud's sword.
It is the slingshot youg David used
to bring down the monster Goliath.
And we will become warriors,
like the Maccabees.
Brave men and women
fighting for their freedom.
As they were.
Fire!
Good.
Now, this here... this is a knight.
He can move... one, two forward
and one to the side ...
Yesterday potatoes with beets,
today beets with potatoes.
Tomorrow - special treat:
potato soup.
Stop complaining, you
wenches, and keep mashing.
We love potatoes, don't we boys?
- Yes, sir!
We love vodka, winches...
Thank you.
Get down!
Put some hairs on your chest.
Not all at once!
-If you want to be a soldier, you drink!
What are you doing?
- Sorry, just having a little drink.
So, a little bird told me ...
that a certain someone is waiting for another
certain someone to ask a certain question.
Hello, Chaya.
- Hello Asael.
Let me take...
- Oh, no, no...
You're sure?
- No, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
May I help you?
Chaya, I was wondering if maybe you ...
I mean... you and I ...
I accept.
You do?
- I do.
Blessed art Thou, our God,
King of the Universe...
Who created Man
in His own image...
And out of Himself fashioned for us
a lasting place.
Blessed art Thou, our God
King of the Universe ...
Who created all things
for His glory...
Oh, gladden these loving mates...
as Thou they anciently gladden
Thay creatures in Eden.
Blessed art Thou, O God ...
Who gladdens the bridegroom and the bride.
Amen.
- Amen.
With this ring, you are consacrated to me.
According to the law of Moses ...
and Israel.
Tuvia, this is it.
This is all we have.
Cover them up!
Some talk of returning to the ghetto.
They've barely eaten for days.
What time is it?
- Do you have an engagement?
Is there any supper?
- Not today.
Tuvia is sending out more food missions.
You follow Tuvia like an old goat.
- I'd rather be a goat than a snake.
Tuvia is doing the best he can.
We should've joined Zus.
- Who's stopping you?
.
What are you're going to do today?
- Today I go on my first food mission.
I will tell Asael to send
someone else.
No, I want to go.
I must go.
Here. You must... you must take this.
To stay warm, please.
Please, take it.
Thank you, Tuvia.
She's the tasy one, you aristocrat.
- What?
We were told: "hands off".
Property of the commander.
Tuvia, I'm beggining to see signs of a new sickness.
Two of the old one's have died this week.
Miriam!
- What happened?
He says it was a patrol.
They're watching the roads.
The Germans are everywhere.
You go back and stay alert!
She will be allright.
Take your food back now and
stay on this side of the river.
But watch out for patrols.
I'll wait here for the others. Good luck!
Halt! Who goes there?
- Lazar, I'm coming from camp.
The danger's out there.
- Sorry, Tuvia.
Any sign of the food mission?
- Not yet.
I think it's typhos. If it is, we
are in trouble.
The lice are carriers.
The partisanss have ampiciline,
but they say they need it for themselves.
I heard you. Medicine.
I'll go see Victor now.
What happened, you allright?
Fine, thank you.
You're too sick.
Stay in the truck.
Make sure it's in gear when I get back.
- No, I'm coming with you.
I give the orders tonight, Tuvia.
You don't have to do this.
I don't? What about the typhos?
- Some will die. They will, anyway.
For luck, take it.
What about the others?
- Drive with the fucking truck!
The others?
Fighters die so that
malbushim may live.
That's what you believe, yes?
- What do you believe?
You're communist now, Zus?
- Communist, zionist, fascist ...
What difference does it make, as
long as you can get your medicine?
Come back to us.
You're my brother!
So you remember.
Merciful God, we commit our friends
Ben Zion and Krensky to your care.
We have no more prayers,
no more tears, we have run out of blood.
Choose another people ...
We have paid for each of your commandments. We
have covered every stone and field with ashes.
Sanctify another land.
Choose another people.
Teach them the deeds and the prophecies.
Grant us but one more blessing.
Take back the gift of our holiness.
Chaya, this ammount is shit.
Take your hand and dig it to the bottom of the pot...
- Get off me!
- ...and give me some of the meat!
- Let me go!
Arkady, get your hands of her!
What d'you think you're doing, huh?
Pitcher, who do you think you are?
- I am in charge here, get back in line.
Go away, little man!
I'll take the skin of your face!
- C'mon, then!
- I will slit your throat!
Get back!
Put that away! Put it away!
So, what is happening here?
Those who risk their lives to bring back food
deserve a larger portion...
than those who risk nothing!
- Everybody gets the same portion!
Not when your little bitch is serving!
- She is my wife!
- Shut up!
Everybody gets the same.
Anybody caught stealing will face consequences.
What consequences?
- Off rations. One week.
Both of you!
- What?!
You questioning me?
This matter is settled. Now, get back in line.
Get back in line!
Tuvia, I would never ...
- I know!
- So then why am I to be punished?
On food missions they take first for themselves
and only bring back what's left over.
And they spread rumors that
you are power hungry... and corrupt ...
that you take whatever woman you choose.
That we keep the gold for ourselves ...
- What? What?!
What else?
- That you are no longer fit to lead us.
Maybe they're right.
Zus should've punched them senseless.
- Yes, I know.
Well, I miss him.
- He made his choice.
Lova... What happened?
Who did this to you?
Gramov, Dueltof ...
I used the officers' latrine.
They said they won't shit in the same hole as a Jew.
When do we eat? Where is our food?
Lazar, you will eat with the rest
of the women and the malbushim.
I'll be there now.
The village Idiot. Lazar...
I saw him trying to impress the girls...
and he slipped over and landed right in the ditch...
Chaya, you look lovely today.
Thanks you, that looks delicious.
And you look delicious.
What happened?
Arkady ...
What is this?
New policy. Fighters
get better food.
But that is against my orders.
You're no longer commander.
As long as I am leader of this group,
you'll obey my commands.
There will be no complaining, no sitting, no doing nothing.
Anyone who wants to leave, leave now!
Take his body into the woods,
leave it for the wolves.
Do it now!
Your fever broke in the night.
The medicine helped.
How long was I asleep?
- Two days.
You nest me?
I should get up.
- No, no, no ...
Did you study nothing?
- I was at university.
What did you do before the war?
My wife ...
her father... he had a business and...
And she has passed?
- Yes.
I'm sorry.
What did you study at the university?
Music.
You should rest.
Thank you.
- My pleasure.
Who's got the soap? I know there is a little bit left, but...
- Use the sand, Chaya. Is good for your skin.
And look at that skin! And married already.
Look at me, I've turned into a skeleton.
When we get out of this forest,I'm going to eat
only cake and and grow as big as a house.
Tamara, come! Join us. At least the sun is warm.
I can't, Lilka.
- Why?
I am pregnant.
- I had no idea.
I've been hiding it for moths, but... it's obvious now.
It could come any day.
- Who's the father?
It happened when I was escaping.
There was a man with a gun. Stopped me.
What will happen when Tuvia finds out?
He will understand.
- No, you mustn't tell him.
No, I will tell him.
I feel this new life inside me.
It's the only thing keeping me going.
And I woun't give it up.
Lazar says he spotted another patrol. They're getting closer.
You hear that?
She promises not to take extra food.
- This is against my orders!
So you're going to shoot her, too?
Please, Tuvia. The baby is all she has to live for.
I cannot allow it.
You must let it live.
- I cannot keep the living alive!
Tamara and the man who fathered this child
are responsible for it.
They must leave.
- She was raped ...
by the Germans.
You tell us to hold on to our humanity.
No to become like animals.
And what better way than by bringing a life
into this world of suffering and death?
It is our only hope.
Allright.
- Thank you, Tuvia.
I know it was expected of the women here, yet you never touched me.
- Ok...
I am not afraid of anything, Tuvia.
I'm not even afraid of you.
You call that a move?
I call it an inevitable conclusion based
on an unimpitcheable process of reasoning.
The question ...
my friend the genius ...
is what are you going to do about it?
- I'm thinking about what I am going to do about it.
I got him.
- Tuvia!
We found this one and two of
his friends by the second bridge.
We killed two. Aron was
hurt, but he's a brave little soldier.
We found this.
- You allright?
Look what we have here.
They found this in his pouch.
You read this!
You're looking to Jews, huh? Look, we are all Jews.
What's he going to do now, huh?
Look at him!
They've assigned an entire
division to surround the forest.
Don't they have a war to fight?
- The assault begins in two days.
Passover. How fitting!
He says he has a wife and two small children.
- So did I!
If you let him go, he
will lead them back here.
Allright! Ask if he promise not to reveal our location.
He will say anything!
We want justice!
- Justice!
My son's name was David, he had blue eyes ...
he was only 15.
Justice!
My brother's name was...
I don't know what's going to happen to us.
It doesn't matter.
If I had stayed in the
ghetto, I would be dead.
You saved my life.
No. You have saved mine.
Zus, what are we doing?
Retrieting.
- What for?
I don't know.
And where will we go?
But the children of Isr...
Children of Israel ...
were afraid to leave Egypt.
Untill Moses said,
"do not trust in me" ...
"Trust in God."
"He will take care of you."
And that is why tomorrow ...
we will celebrate the Passover
by sitting around and arguing.
Just as we had done for centuries.
Did it see us?
- I do not know.
Tomorrow is Passover, yes?
- So?
Moses, the Exodus. He left
before the Pharaoh could stopped them.
You want to move them all?
The old, the sick... They'll never make it.
- We'll leave now.
Spread the word.
Shimon, this is it. We're going!
Children, up, up!. Let's go!
We are leaving! Tell your
parents that we are going. Now!
I want every child counted for.
But how will they keep up?
- We carry them, if we have to. Come on!
Hurry, please!
Hurry!
Incoming!
Come on, go in there.
Are you allright?
I'm allright. My ear ...
Go! Get them all to the bunkers. Go!
- Stay down!
No, no, no! It is over! They're coming. Infantry.
Go, go, go!
We need to hold them up untill the rest are safe.
- Machine guns!
- Yes, with Levine and Miriam! There!
Lazar, Rosa and Shmiel. There and there! And me!
-No! No!
- I want to stay with you.
- No, I must go with them!
- I want to stay with you!
It is too dangerous here to stay!
Rosa ... down there!
No! You go with them, it's not safe here.
Do not try to fight'em as well.
Just slow them down and come and join us.
Chaya please! You go with them now, it's not safe.
- No.
Take her!
Go!
Move, Chaya! Go!
Moshe, quickly! Let me help you. Come.
- Careful!
They're moving to the right!
- Yeah!.
Oh, my God!
We have to keep going.
- The Germans will be here any minute.
Are the others back yet?
Asael?
Tuvia, do we stay or go?
We have to wait for the others.
We can't leave them.
We could hide.
- I say fight them here!
That's crazy.
My father cannot make it.
- There are snakes?
Children?
- We will put them on our shoulders.
Tuvia, what do we do?
- We can't go without the others.
The others are dead.
What are we going to do?
- What's wrong with him?
Do you have a weapon?
- Yes.
- Give it!
Give it to me!
You use this on yourself,
before you let them take you.
Why are we stopping?
- Asael! They're alive!
Someone take her! Take her! They're coming!
They're coming! Why aren't we moving, huh?
We must keep going!
- Through there?
- It is impossible!
Nothing is impossible!
What we have done is impossible!
The troops are coming.
God will not part his waters.
We will do it ourselves.
- How?
Not by miracles!
We will do it together, by our strength.
You! Take the rope of your pack and give it to me.
And you, give me your belt! Quickly!
There's not enough rope, Asael!
- Then we will link arms, we'll make a chain.
But if someone slips?
- The strong will take care of the weak.
Give me your belt.
- Tuvia, give him your belt.
Quiet!
How much further?
You can't sleep here.
You can't time for sleeping now. Come on!
My books.
Asael, look! We've made it!
I have something to say.
- No. You rest, now. Don't talk! Don't talk!
- No. Please.
I almost lost my faith.
But you are sent by God to save us.
Ridiculous.
- I know.
But just in case, I thank Him.
And I thank you ...
Tank! Take cover! Everybody down! Get down!
Get down!
Tuvia, what do we do?
We try and go back across the river?
- No! We stay and fight!
Get the ammunition to the guns! To the guns!
Isaac, take!
Ammunition! Ammunition, there!
Strip the bodies of weapons
and ammunition only. Take this.
Anything else?
- No, we got to get the injured in the forest.
What about the dead?
- We have to keep moving.
Everybody, gather your belongings!
We must get out of the open!
- Shimon!
- Yes, Tuvia?
- Everybody, tell them! Weapons only.
Weapons only!!
Shimon! You've been promoted. Congratulations!
Where is the rest of your unit?
- Good question.
Are you going back?
We have a new camp to build.
Perhaps you have room for one more.
Let's go. Come on.
You see that?
- What?
The forest. Beautiful, isn't it?
Yes it is.
ALWAYS down, THE NUMBER IS GROWING