Genre:
War
Release Date: 12/18/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 177 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher
Mordechai Anielewicz (
Hank Azaria), the organization comes into being as the Warsaw Jewish ghetto is being systemically decimated and shipped off to the Treblinka death camp by the German occupational forces. From April 19 to May 16, 1943,
Anielewicz' followers staged a valiant uprising, which -- though ultimately unsuccessful in stopping the Nazi "final solution" juggernaut -- inflicted an enormous amount of damage upon the enemy and enabled hundreds of Polish Jews to escape the gas ovens and crematoriums. Much of the story is based upon the eyewitness testimony of surviving freedom fighter
Simha "Kazik" Rotem, portrayed in the film by
Stephen Moyer. Director
Jon Avnet brilliantly combines newly filmed scenes with digitally refashioned archival footage of the actual uprising. Filmed in Bratisla, Slovakia, and boasting an all-star cast,
Uprising was shown in two-hour installments on November 4 and 5, 2001, over the
NBC network.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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