Far from true story...

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2009)

This move would be better to judge under one condition: It should be underlined that it does NOT show a true story! Historical facts are totally biased or false in that movie. Bielski brothers did not fought Germans at all. They concentrated on purely survival and scavenging supplies from villagers. The Bielski group would raid nearby villages and forcibly seize food; on occasion peasants who refused to share their food with the partisans were the subject of violence and murder. This caused hostility towards the partisans from peasants in the villages Story took place in pre war Poland. After Soviet invasion of Poland (1939), which was then allied with Nazi Germany under the Nazi-Soviet Pact, The Bielski family collaborated with the Soviets, which strained their relations with the local Poles, who saw the Soviets as occupier. The eldest brother Tuvia, who had served in the Polish Army from 1927 to 1929, rising to the rank of corporal. However The Bielski Jews, fighting on the Soviet side, took part in clashes between Polish and Soviet forces. Notably they took part in the treacherous disarmament of Polish partisans by the Soviets on 1 December 1943. Please note that Soviets were also seen as oppressor at that time on Poilsh soil. Some of the members of the Bielski partisans (but not the Bielski brothers themselves) have been accused of war crimes on the neighbouring population, particularly for involvement in the 1943 Naliboki massacre of 128 people, committed by Soviet partisans. The Polish Institute of National Remembrance has been investigating the massacre since the early 2000s.