Does "eye-for-an-eye" retaliation teach the enemy a bitter lesson, or is pacifism a more effective solution?"

Rating: 9/10 (17 January 2009)

This film is one of the best films I have seen in a long time. As some Yahoo said on here, their is a lot of historic inaccuracies in this film, pertaining to the Penicillin raid, in one scene, yes this drug was developed in 1929 so it was in use at this time. People also spoke Russian, Polish, Ukrainian in some instances as well, as they were displaced and moved by "Mother Russia", to be used as farmers, or in the trades. One of the most interesting things about this film, is when they were talking English they were actually talking Polish, and when they were talking Russian, they were talking Russian.
The Russian "Red Army" was also another interesting insert into the story. In the film as well, they had something to say about the treatment of Jews by the Russians, they were not all good, and many of the troops in the Red Army despised the Jewish population as not being Russian, or pure Russian. Enough about the background of the history of the story.
These men and women who numbered about 1200 (including babies) was amazing, this was after the settlement of the forests by the Bielski partisans. As one Jewish proverb says "If you save one life you are indebted to it", this was a major undertaking. Can a group of people survive against all odds. Watch this film, so that we don't go down the same path again.