Uprising
by Jon Avnet
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Actor: David Schwimmer, Donald Sutherland, Hank Azaria, Jon Voight, Leelee SobieskiDirector: Jon Avnet
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Jon Avnet
Writer: Jon Avnet
Producer: Bill Haber
Producer: Hester Hargett
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Producer: Lisa Lindstrom
Writer: Paul Brickman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 177 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Uprising
Movie Review: The Warsaw Ghetto
Summary: 4 Stars
"Uprising"
The Warsaw Ghetto
Amos Lassen
"Uprising" is an interesting albeit flawed film about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It is a good story but it is a bit simplistic and not totally accurate. In the film the Jews are all young and good looking and the Poles are indifferent to what happens to the Jews. We now know that if it had not been for the Polish underground, there would have been an uprising. The film gives the poles no credit but it is nonetheless an interesting film.
This mini-series stars Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Leelee Sobieski, Donald Sutherland and John Voight. Ably directed by John Avnet, this is a look at an event in history that has been swept under the rug for many. It may not be history but it is entertainment.
Summary of Uprising
After Germany invades Poland in 1939, the Nazis decree that 350,000 Warsaw Jews be forcibly moved into a cordoned area known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Idealistic teacher Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria) decides the Jews must rise up against the Nazis and creates the Jewish Fighting Organization (JFO). He tries to secure the support of Adam Czerniakow (Donald Sutherland), the morally conflicted head of the Warsaw Ghetto's Jewish Council, but Adam declines because he knows that any act of resistance will provoke the Germans to retaliate by killing innocent Jews. Determined to mobilize a resistance alone if he has to, Mordechai recruits his friends and covert couriers whose ability to pass as Aryan helps them smuggle in arms and explosives from the Aryan side of the city, building up an arsenal to fight the Nazis.When the Germans begin deporting 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka death camp, the JFO begins acts of resistance that culminate with ghetto fighters firing their first gunshots against the Nazis. When it becomes clear that the JFO is a force to be reckoned with, the German High Command sends in General Stroop (Jon Voight), who is determined to end the uprising in two or three days.
Capturing the horror that unfolds is Fritz Hippler (Cary Elwes), a filmmaker assigned by Hitler's chief propagandist to promote anti-Semitism with a film about Jewish life in the ghetto.
When the Nazis continue to suffer more casualties in their battle with the ghetto fighters, General Stroop decides to raze the ghetto. But even that can't stop the JFO. Forced to go underground into bunkers but energized by their success, the resisters fight on, ultimately holding off the Nazi army longer than the entire country of Poland. They're determined to live with honor--and if need be, die with honor--while lighting the torch for resistance in the occupied territories.
Originally broadcast in November 2001, this exceptional made-for-television film recalls Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan while forging its own distinct identity. It was the first American film to dramatize the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, during which an underground collective of Polish Jews dared to defy the Nazis. Hank Azaria leads an all-star cast as resistance leader Mordecai Anielewicz, and the film follows his close-knit collaborators (including David Schwimmer and Leelee Sobieski) and their battle against the Nazi general (Jon Voight) assigned to clear all Jews from Warsaw. The uprising was eventually crushed (some heartbreaking outcomes are listed in the closing credits), but director Jon Avnet expertly maintains a sense of courage and hope amidst the palpable horror of the Warsaw Ghetto. Combining physical and historical accuracy with intimate character details, Uprising is suspenseful without being sensational, thus honoring one of the greatest symbolic victories in all of Jewish history. --Jeff Shannon
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