Zus Bielski: [after Asael exits a hide out with 2 women] Asael! You've been busy?

Asael Bielski: Shut up
Konstanty 'Koscik' Kozlowski: Why is it so fucking hard being friends with a Jew?

Tuvia Bielski: Try being one.
Lazar: Halt, who goes there?

Zus Bielski: We go here, Lazar. You only say 'halt, who goes there' when you don't know who goes there. We go there.

Lazar: Oh. Sorry Zus.
Lazar: [turning around to face the camp] Halt who goes there!

Tuvia Bielski: Lazar, I'm coming from the camp, you only say that to people going towards the camp! The danger is out there, not in here!
Asael Bielski: Nothing is impossible, what we all have done is impossible!
Shamon Haretz: Merciful God, we commit our friends - Ben Zion and Krensky - to You. We have no more prayers, no more tears; we have run out of blood. Choose another people. We have paid for each of Your commandments; we have covered every stone and field with ashes. Sanctify another land. Choose another people. Teach them the deeds and the prophesies. Grant us but one more blessing: take back the gift of our holiness. Amen.
Zus Bielski: We are the Bielski's and we WILL be back!
Viktor Panchenko: You are related to Bielski?

Zus Bielski: I am Bielski.
Shamon Haretz: Yes. You annoy me, therefore I exist.
Tuvia Bielski: If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.
Tuvia Bielski: We're family. We have to stick together.
Tuvia Bielski: I thought you were dead.

Shamon Haretz: I am at least half dead.
Tuvia Bielski: Our revenge is to live.
Tuvia Bielski: We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals.
Bella: Women need guns, too.

Zus Bielski: What for?

Bella: For... protection.

Zus Bielski: Women have men for protection.
Tuvia Bielski: When you take food it is support. When we do, it is stealing.
Zus Bielski: What is it we are good for, Viktor? Dying.
Lilka Ticktin: I'm not afraid of anything, Tuvia. I'm not even afraid of you.
Zus Bielski: [after a stranger enters the camp] How did you get past Lazar?

Ben Zion Gulkowitz: Who?

Zus Bielski: [stalking past him, mumbling] Fucking shit.

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Defiance short comments

Lizzie 2022-03-25 09:01:08

"If any man or society is willing to sacrifice a little liberty in exchange for security, then neither liberty nor security will be attained." - Someone
Eula 2021-11-28 08:01:18

Edward Zwick’s level of performance, real historical adaptation, stories about self-help and resistance, are really rare, the color texture is excellent, the life and battle in the forest, there is not only a romantic and soft beauty, but also a coldness of lack of food and clothing. Fortunately, everyone did not become crazy beasts, the aura of humanity was not lost, they maintained the utmost dignity, and finally they were victorious.