Tense war drama. Worth your while.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2009)

Another based on a true story World War II film. This over two hour long epic was filmed in Lithuania and the scenery is actually beautiful in a rustic way. The feel of the movie is authentic enough, but I'm not one to argue the historic details. Daniel Craig plays Tuvia Bielski, a every man's man that has the right stuff to be a hero. Family, honor and staying alive are things that make ordinary men do daring things. Tuvia and his brother Zus(Liev Schreiber) take up the Jewish cause and turn farmers, bookkeepers and watch makers into freedom fighters versus the Germans in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. The brothers and their ever growing number of war refugees build a small community in the Belarus woods and actually join up with a Russian regiment in order to have the man power to survive the raiding Nazi forces. Inspirational and full of war action.
Other cast members: Alexa Davaloe, Mark Feuerstein, Jamie Bell, Jodie May and George MacKay.