Uprising
2001
After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organisation (JFO). Determined to mobilise a resistance against the .. Read more
| Starring | Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight |
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| Director | Jon Avnet |
| Genres | Drama |
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Thought Provoking
The best film i've seen for ages, brilliantly made, good cast and very thought provoking. Actually felt I was living through it, watched it twice. I would recomend this
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Worthy but flawed.
A great episode of the second world war is let down by some truly awful generic eastern European accents, and a so-so script. The film also somewhat downplays the support given to the Jews by the Polish Home Army, and the last fifteen minutes are a direct rip-off of Wajda's superb film Kanal.
Having said that, the battle scenes are filmed with style, and this is an important story which deserves to be told. The 1943 Ghetto Uprising inspired the rest of Warsaw, who in turn rose up in 1944. This should be watched with The Pianist for a better overall account of the period. -
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
UPRISING...Simply Excellent
This film depicts the suffering of the Polish Jews against the Nazis in a remarkable way.Set in the Warsaw Ghetto The Casting and Sets are done superbly.This film is well worth the watch.
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Worthy but flawed.
A great episode of the second world war is let down by some truly awful generic eastern European accents, and a so-so script. The film also somewhat downplays the support given to the Jews by the Polish Home Army, and the last fifteen minutes are a direct rip-off of Wajda's superb film Kanal.
Having said that, the battle scenes are filmed with style, and this is an important story which deserves to be told. The 1943 Ghetto Uprising inspired the rest of Warsaw, who in turn rose up in 1944. This should be watched with The Pianist for a better overall account of the period. -
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Thought Provoking
The best film i've seen for ages, brilliantly made, good cast and very thought provoking. Actually felt I was living through it, watched it twice. I would recomend this
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Thought Provoking
The best film i've seen for ages, brilliantly made, good cast and very thought provoking. Actually felt I was living through it, watched it twice. I would recomend this
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Worthy but flawed.
A great episode of the second world war is let down by some truly awful generic eastern European accents, and a so-so script. The film also somewhat downplays the support given to the Jews by the Polish Home Army, and the last fifteen minutes are a direct rip-off of Wajda's superb film Kanal.
Having said that, the battle scenes are filmed with style, and this is an important story which deserves to be told. The 1943 Ghetto Uprising inspired the rest of Warsaw, who in turn rose up in 1944. This should be watched with The Pianist for a better overall account of the period. -
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
UPRISING...Simply Excellent
This film depicts the suffering of the Polish Jews against the Nazis in a remarkable way.Set in the Warsaw Ghetto The Casting and Sets are done superbly.This film is well worth the watch.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Uplifting
A fantastically acted script which, despite its slow start, bought out the true horror of what it was like in Poland at the time. Twenty minutes in, it was gripping and I was unable to turn away from the screen
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Very Good
Especially if ur totally ignorant to the persecution of the Jews.It was realistic/harrowing,did you get that Harry!
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Excellent film
This is what finally happens when a peaceful race of people can not take any more cruelty and humiliation from a nation which, I am sorry to say, has blind obedience to authority bred into it.
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Moving
I thought that this was a very moving portrayal of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. It was well acted and well made. Definitely worth watching but, as would be expected, you may want to have a tissue at the ready.
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Courage of the Damned
If you are familiar with the events in Poland during World War II the opening fifteen to twenty minutes of this film will be somewhat trite and clichéd. It’s all been done before, a score of times. However, stick with it. Once it moves beyond the need to ‘set the scene’ for those who are ‘visiting’ this subject for the first time the real action starts. As the Warsaw Ghetto steadily loses its Jews to Treblinka Concentration Camp, those left behind discover anyone forced to leave the City are being systematically murdered. This leads to the formation of an urban guerrilla force to both combat the German Army and prevent any more transportation. ‘Uprising’ is the story of this defiance and the gambits employed by both sides to inflict the maximum damage on the other. After several weeks, it was to lead to a large part of Warsaw being entirely demolished. It is an extraordinary story of courage and caring and we learn at the conclusion just a handful of the ‘freedom fighters’ survived and in doing so achieved so much more in their lifetimes.
Tom Sutherland tried hard but was not entirely convincing as a Jewish leader, but Jon Voight was chilling as the German officer determined to extract and kill every Jew in Warsaw or send them to a death camp. Amongst the rebels, it’s not possible to single out an individual performance, they were all convincing. At one juncture, a rebel says London should be told what is happening to the Jews and someone will go to Churchill to do this. Another asked would they be believed? A good question since the Jews in Warsaw thought it was a lie initially. Even Israel had no idea of the scope of the ‘Final Solution’ in the early days. Many hundreds of postcards, possibly more, were sent by Palestinians, as they were then, to relatives in Europe and no-one received a reply. It never occurred to anyone the Third Reich had created the new industry of murder and a new crime in the modern era - genocide. A deafening silence proved nothing.
The rebellion in Warsaw has always been underplayed. Older people will recall asking why the Jews didn’t retaliate, defend themselves? Why did they go peacefully to their deaths? Well the fact is they did fight back, but somehow not much attention was paid to it, until now. This redresses the balance in a well acted, gripping film which has no happy ending but shows human spirit and courage can survive in the worst of circumstances. -
Engrossing
I knew when I got this that it was going to be emotional, moving and thought provoking.
It still amazes me that we humans can treat others so horrendously. I found this film difficult to watch at times, but thought it was exceptional. No matter how badly treated, the Jewish people maintained their fight for what was right.
Inspirational and a chilling reminder of how brutal we can be to those we deem 'different'. -
FANTASTIC War Film!
set in the warsaw Ghetto it follows the Jews that fought for their lives in the last days of the Liquidation of the Ghetto. starts out at the beginning when the jews are moved there and gradually living conditions get worse until the Nazi's begin to get rid of the Jews by sending them off to Treblinka. this is a brilliant movie! excellent effects are set with shots of war torn Germany. I highly reccomend this movie. its gripping stuff.
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Uprising
After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into an area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organisation (JFO). Determined to ...
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