"What do we do?" "Shut up." "We've got to get home." "Go!" "Oh, my God!" "Oh, my..." "Papa!" "Aron." "Come. lt's safe." "Let's go." "Stop it." "Asael!" "Stop it." "Stop!" "You want to cry?" "Stop!" "Let's go." "Aron, let's go." "Tuvia!" "It's Tuvia." "If I was a German, you would be dead." "Papa and Mama, they killed them." "l know." "Aron." "Big brother returns." "You saw them?" "Where is your wife and child?" "Horodysze." "Hiding in a cellar." "I'll bring them when it is safe." "And Rifka?" "Novogrudok." "She wouldn't leave." "You're still...?" "She is still my wife." "Your rich wife." "Tell me, Tuvia, why have you come back?" "You have a plan?" "No." "Do you?" "The police will be after us." "We've run from the police our whole life." "You think this is a good time to stop?" "We know these woods." "They'll never find us in here." "Aron?" "I told him to stay here." "I miss Papa." "I can't believe he's dead." "Bernicki." "We don't know he did it." "The police captain?" "He always had it in for Papa." "But we don't know that he did it." "We will go and ask him if he did it." "Koscik has a pistol." "He showed it to me once." "One pistol is nothing." "We need rifles." "Machine guns." "Machine guns?" "You're gonna take on the whole German army?" "Just because..." "The child is hurt." "Please, lay her down here." "Tuvia." "We cannot feed them." "I'll go ask Koscik for food." "And the pistol." "You want me not to help?" "I only have four bullets." "Thank you." "Your father was a good man." "He said the same of you." "Ignore the bitch." "To the dead." "God rest their souls." "Bitch..." "You want vodka?" "I live with this." "Can you imagine?" "The barn." "Oh, God." "Working late, Bernicki." "Hunting Jews..." "Our new bosses are very organised." "Be quiet." "Hunting can work up a thirst." "Fifteen in one day..." "Careful." "500 roubles for every one we turn in." "A Jew is worth that much?" "Do you pay more for a fat one?" "Caught five in a ditch." "Smelled so bad I thought the Germans wouldn't want them." "Maybe for a reduced price." "You know the Bielskis?" "We missed them when we visited the parents." "The wife doesn't like these long nights." "Keep it." "Bribing an ofticer of the law?" "Hiding more of this black market vodka in the barn?" "Please, take a look." "And clean out the cow shit while you're there." "You'll keep your eyes open, yes?" "Good hunting." "I am sorry, but they have to go with you." "What am I supposed to do with them?" "Those policemen... were they the ones who killed my parents?" "Your people." "Why is it so fucking hard being friends with a Jew?" "Try being one." "Who is he?" "Where are we going?" "Come on." "Thank you." "Come." "Come." "You sat at the back. ln school." "I am Shimon H'aretz." "I thought you were dead." "I am at least half-dead." "I heard you speaking of your parents." "I am very sorry." "The other brothers?" "What was his name, the wild one?" "Zus." "He is with the other two." "You are hiding here in the forest?" "There has been trouble before maybe?" "With the police?" "So you go to the forest." "A wise choice." "A wise choice." "For a stupid schoolboy." "My whole life I presumed to teach others the right way to live." "I had no doubt:" "this is God's way, this isn't." "You'll forgive me if recent events have somewhat shaken my resolve." "Just like school." "I have no idea what you are talking about." "Please, let's go." "Here, please." "Here." "You're not hungry?" "The little one doesn't talk?" "He saw things." "I send you for food, and you bring more mouths to feed." "You send me?" "Oh, please... lt was Bernicki who killed Papa." "Did you at least get the pistol?" "Only four bullets." "Then we'll have to make them count." "You worked late." "Tomorrow is Sunday." "You have a day oft?" "Fucking SS never sleeps..." "You know who I am?" "Sit!" "You know why I'm here." " What are you talking about?" " What am I talking about?" "If they say find someone, I find him. lt's my job." "To kill Jews." "Or lose my job." "And you like your job." "I was always fair with your family." "Everyone knew you were smuggling." "I looked the other way." "Ask your Father." "My Father?" "You can ask my Father." "On your knees." "On your knees!" "Please..." "I beg you." "For my parents, David and Beila Bielski..." "For my brothers and for all the others..." "Kill me, too!" "Shit." "Only one left." "His sons." "How was it?" "How was what?" "To kill them." "lt was good, no?" "Shut up." "And what about these others?" "I don't know..." "The women will slow us down and your old teacher..." "Are you afraid he's going to spank you for forgetting your homework?" "We have to be able to move, Tuvia." "And quickly." "I agree." "But they're here." "We'll sleep further up the trail." "If someone comes, they'll stumble on them first and... the gunshots should give us time to escape." "Alright." "But no more." "No more." "I know, I know." "Tamara, you remember cousin Zus." "Please, go over and sit by the fire." "Lazar, he's Isabel's youngest." "And this is Isaac Malbin." "Hello." "He's from Minsk." "Tuvia..." "Asael!" "Find them something to eat!" "l have pity for them all." "They're family." "And how will we feed this family?" "We'll water the soup." "And this one?" "She is family?" "No." "What the fuck?" "!" "Have you never used a hammer before?" "No." "What is it you do?" "I suppose you'd have to say I was-- am -- an intellectual." "This is a job?" "I published a small magazine." "Actually a journal." "More like a pamphlet." "Tuvia!" "This is Lila." "Lila is my forest wife." "I see." "Congratulations." "Interesting concept." "As long as his village wife stays in hiding." "Hello, boys." "What can we do for you?" "Food." "We want food." "These little shits are holding us up." "You have the balls to shoot me, little shit?" "We have food." "We'll share." "No. I want to see if this little shit has the balls to shoot me." "You like to shoot Jews, little shit?" "You are Jews?" "No, we're the Gestapo." "Put down the gun." "Or perhaps you'd prefer I shove it up your ass." "Look at me." "Where you from?" "Horodyscze." "We haven't eaten in two days." "My name is Peretz." "This is Jakov." "Two days ago, there were 3000 Jews in Horodyscze." "Now there are 50." "Me and him, we hid in a wall." "You know a woman, Sonia Bielski?" "We knew her." "There was a child." "I should have protected them." "Sonia..." "Mama..." "Papa..." "So many dead..." "Yeah." "Why not us?" "I don't know." "Better to be hiding in the woods... like rabbits... hunted... no..." "We are looking for Partisans." "What is the name of your otriad?" "What is an otriad?" "It's an armed brigade." "We heard the Russians are beginning to organize." "Here?" "And also in the Lipicanska." "Then we are the Bielski Otriad." "You want to join?" "The Russians are fighters." "But you need a gun to join them." "They sabotage railroads and kill Germans." "You want to kill Germans?" "Come with me." "Unless you're still afraid to use that rifle." "Stay there!" "We must get what we need without killing." "This will not bring your family back." "Blood for blood." "You had yours." "And I can still see their faces." ""Vengeance is mine." Who said that, Tuvia?" "This is God's work you're doing now, Zus?" "No, only you can do that." "Take a few lives, spare a few others..." "We must not become like them!" "No, but at least we can kill like them." "Are you coming with us or not?" "Collaborator." "Traitor!" "We are the Bielskis!" "We'll be back." "My truck!" "Who did this?" "Who are you?" "This truck took away Jews." "The Germans made me use it." "It's coming!" "It's coming!" "Kraut!" "Hurry!" "Go!" "Here!" "It's one of ours, but there is no one here." "Maybe he was drunk?" "Look for him and hurry up!" "We want to get to the party!" "Got one!" "No, no, no!" "Vodka." "Now we are real Partisans." "To the Bielski Otriad." "Cigarettes!" "Asael!" "Get his rifle!" "Shit!" "He's going the wrong way." "We can't just leave him!" "We have no choice!" "Go!" "Asael!" "Go!" "Go!" "They thought you were bringing food." "Did the farmers stop you?" "They had guns?" "Dogs?" "No." "I don't understand." "The Talmud says if you save a life, you must take responsibility for it." "Again, I have no idea what you're talking about." "Oh, yes. I think you do." "And now your little brother is gone." "How did you get past Lazar?" "Who?" "Fucking shit!" "You worthless piece of shit!" "Zus!" "Enough!" "He walked right by you!" "Someone could have been killed!" "I said enough!" "Get up!" "He should be shot!" "If we were real Partisans, he'd be shot." "You hear that, you stupid little piece of shit!" "He made a mistake!" "Mistake?" "We cannot make mistakes, Tuvia." "Like last night." "First they will torture Asael and then they will hang him." "You are Tuvia Bielski?" "You know me?" "We heard of you in Vilna." "Vilna?" "My sister lives in Vilna." "The SD came without warning." "Oh, God!" "Oh, God..." "We'd be better oft in the ghetto!" "At least here we are safe!" "There at least we had hope." "No, here we have hope." "Do we?" "We have no food!" "Tomorrow will be another mission." "Look what happened last time!" "That was a mistake that will not be made again." "How do you know?" "We may be here a long time, so we have to prepare." "How?" "Better security." "Better at getting food..." "We don't have weapons." "People are getting sick!" "Whatever it takes, we all have to participate, but we can't work against each other!" "We cannot aftord revenge." "Not now." "We cannot aftord to lose friends like Jakov and Peretz." "Or Asael." "We cannot lose anyone." "We will map out where we have been, so as not to visit the same farms too often, and we will take only from those who can aftord to give, and we will leave those who can't alone." "Our revenge is to live." "The poorest farmer has more than us." "But we are not thieves or murderers." "We may be hunted like animals, but we will not become animals." "We have all chosen this." "To live here free like human beings for as long as we can." "Every day of freedom is like an act of faith." "And if we should die trying to live... then at least we die like human beings." "Hello." "In the barn." "JEW LOVER" "I'm sorry." "Come." "Thank God." "Come here!" "Asael." "Zus, I can't breathe." "Look what we found." "Where did you get these?" "Hello?" "lt's alright." "Please come." "Please." "lt is alright." "Come on." "Give me that." "Asael, you've been busy." "Shut up." "Hello. I'm Zus." "This is Bella and this is Chaya." "Please come." "You must be hungry." "Thank you." "Go." "Then we fell into this horrible bog, and Chaya saved me." "Honestly, I can't swim at all." "We'll have to teach you." "We must have got lost a dozen times." "I was resigned to die." "Tell him, Chaya." "Was it not the absolute worst?" "And that farmer, Mister..." "Koscik." "Yes." "He kept making the most vulgar jokes." "So you're trying to tell me that all politics is meaningless." "In the West, a monster with a little mustache; in the East, a monster with a big mustache." "This is all I need to know about politics." "Your messiah will have a moustache, too." "And a full beard." "No." "The messiahs are all in politics, and they are killing us." "No " "What's killing me is all of your talking!" "And Roosevelt?" "He has no mustache." "We need to know what is going on in the villages, where the Germans are patrolling, who the informers are." "Are you listening to me?" "Yes." "What's her name?" "Chaya." "Chaya!" "What are you doing?" "Go and talk to her." "I hardly know her." "You spent three days in a cellar with her." "How much more do you want to know?" "Malbin says the Piznarski granary is full." "But we still need two guns, at least." "Whose turn is it to go?" "Zus." "Go with him." "Make sure he understands my orders." "Go!" "Talk to her." "Hello." "How are you?" "Hello." "Fine." "Good." "Good morning." "Early to market?" "Could you spare us a little bit of milk?" "This is what I must give the Germans." "If I don't meet my quota, they'll shoot me and my family." "Leave half." "He cannot go to the Germans empty-handed." "Tuvia's orders." "Comrade, we are grateful for your cooperation." "What a lovely coat." "is that a fur collar?" "Halt!" "Who goes there?" "You know who goes there, Lazar!" "We go there." "You only say "who goes there" when you don't know who goes there." "Sorry, Zus." "Milk!" "And eggs!" "Chaya, our brave men have brought us a feast." "You could make me blintzes." "Hey!" "I don't think we've been properly introduced." "Hello." "Arkady Lubczanski." "You are Chaya." "Yes." "Are you getting along alright?" "Anything you need?" "An extra blanket?" "No, thank you, I'm fine." "Something nice and soft " "No, it is alright." "I noticed you don't have a husband yet." "Yet?" "A forest husband." "All the other women are chosen already." "They haven't told you about this?" "No, they haven't." "Thank you for explaining it." "Descartes at least provided for the subjective nature of experience." "Yes." "You annoy me, therefore I exist." "Ben Zion." "The new ones are just arrived." "They are from Novagroduk." "Your wife, they say she was killed last week." "I'm sorry." "Thank you for telling me." "Can I join you?" "Of course." "Oh, I never..." "You never what?" "Do you get lonely out here?" "I like the woods." "I get a little bit scared sometimes." "Tell me something." "Why is there a rule against women having guns?" "There aren't enough for the men." "But women need guns, too." "What for?" "For protection." "Women have men for protection." "I want protection." "Men with guns!" "Men with guns!" "Take weapons and ammunition only!" "Lova!" "Ben Zion!" "Let's go, Asael!" "Keep them moving!" "Don't stop!" "Go!" "Keep them moving!" "Alright, go, go!" "Come on, quickly!" "Zus!" "Now!" "Don't stop till you reach the fields!" "Go!" "Move!" "Move!" "Isaac, keep them moving!" "Zus, Asael, Ben Zion... there!" "Leave now and we won't shoot all of you!" "Don't be a fool." "There are hundreds of us!" "There are hundreds of us!" "Who is the fool?" "Give up Bielski and the rest of you can go free!" "You're from Belorussia!" "Why do you work with the Germans against your own people?" "For the same reason you steal from the poor!" "To survive!" "Shit!" "Next one's to the head!" "It will be dark soon!" "How will you find your way home then?" "Let's go!" "They'll be back." "We will have to build a new camp." "Next time you can draw them a map." "And what does that mean?" "It means we should have killed the fucking milkman." "Your policy of diplomacy is shit." "Winter is coming and now we have no shelter." "Why?" "Because you don't have the stomach to do what must be done." "Go!" "Move." "Where is he taking us?" "My feet are going to fall oft." "I need volunteers for a scouting party." "Who are you?" "A brigade of independent fighters." "What brigade?" "The Bielski Otriad." "We know of you." "Jewish bandits." "I'm sure we can clear this up with your commander." "I am Viktor Panchenko, Commander of the October Otriad." "We've heard of a Jewish gang stealing from villages loyal to us." "How do you respond to these charges?" "When you take food it is support." "When we do, it is stealing." "We are soldiers of the Red Army." "And we fight a common enemy." "The Motherland doesn't distinguish between Jews and non-Jews." "But Jews do not fight." "These Jews do." "We will see." "Send us your best fighters." "We are honoured to be of service." "So now we are Partisans." "We'll see." "Here." "Thank you." "If my friends at the New Socialists' Club could see me now." "I haven't read a book in months." "I don't read much." "You can ask Shimon." "l did." "And yet you accept me as commander?" "Who else?" "Might I make an observation?" "Please." "observe away." "We need to be strong, yes, but..." "But...?" "Other things are important too." "Such as?" "Community." "You have ideas about community?" "Afew." "More mouths to feed." "And more young bodies to keep us warm." "Which one is Tuvia Bielski?" "Tuvia!" "I'm Tuvia." "None of us knew if you really existed." "Excuse me." "My name is Yitzhak Shulman." "Welcome, Yitzhak." "I am from Baranowicze." "The ghetto is being liquidated." "The Germans warned that everyone will be execute if anyone is missing." "So the Council stops us from leaving." "But... every day more people are killed." "My parents..." "We will do what we can." "Thank you very " "No, no..." "Thank you." "Welcome." "Please, will you help my parents?" "Chaya... I've seen you looking at me." "If you were to rescue them, I would do anything for you." "No, no..." "Anything." "Please?" "And what does it mean, "do what we can"?" "We will send for everyone who is left alive." "And if there are hundreds, Tuvia?" "Then we will provide." "And when the Germans follow these hundreds, what then?" "I won't let that happen." "You won't let that happen." "No. I will bring them out myself." "From the ghetto." "Yes." "So now you are Moses?" "Zus, go back to work." "You're wasting time." "I'm not the one who's wasting time." "I cannot have you questioning me in front of the others." "We're family." "We have to stick together." "Why?" "So we can die alongside these..." "Malbushim?" "Don't call them that." "They're people, they're Jews." "Pretentious Jews." "Jews who stuck up their noses at us." "Jews who would lock their daughters away from our dirty hands." "You are nothing to them, Tuvia." "They only follow you because they're too weak and afraid to fight for themselves." "And what about Bella?" "Do you think she'd be with you if this wasn't happening?" "Don't... ls it love, Zus?" "Tuvia..." "Tuvia!" "Lova..." "Ben Zion... and anyone else who'd rather fight than wait to be killed." "We are leaving to join those who fight." "Are you coming?" "No." "jewish living AREA DO NOT ENTER" "We are not so naive to think they won't kill some of us." "But all the Jews?" "It makes no sense." "They need us to work." "In the factories. in the labor camps." "They're death camps." "We too have heard of such places." "But have you seen them yourself?" "Can you tell me with absolute certainty that we won't just as likely die out there with you in the woods with winter coming on?" "Do you think we haven't all considered running away?" "For every one who leaves, they kill twenty." "How can I sacrifice thousands for the sake of a few?" "What if we take you all?" "The old, the sick?" "How will we live?" "We will protect you." "We have made alliances with the Russian Partisans." "They are as bad as the Germans." "You're too young to know the pogroms." "Our only weapon is time." "If I can buy more, we will have won." "You want time?" "Fine. I'll give you time." "A day, a month, maybe even a year." "To live." "Your daughter Chaya is with us." "Your husband is waiting for you." "Rabbi." "Rabbi, please..." "We are waiting for God." "I am going." "Me, too." "Come on." "Go." "Move forward!" "Come along, please!" "Please have your valuables out and ready!" "Keep moving!" "Come!" "We're not going to bite you!" "Mama!" "Papa!" "Chaya." "What about you, Tateh?" "l am a watchmaker." "Can you repair guns?" "The trigger..." "Maybe." "Please come forward." "Everyone have your things out and ready." "Yes, please?" "But they were my grandmother's." "And now they belong to the otriad." "Everyone sacrifices for the sake of the collective." "We can trade this for food or weapons." "Next!" "How about carpenters?" "Any bootmakers?" "Seamstresses?" "I'm an accountant." "That should come in handy." "Alright." "You have a new profession." "Mazel tov." "Next!" "Yes, please." "l am a nurse." "Ah." "Good." "You are most welcome." "Friends, this is the happiest day of my life... to see you here, safely amongst us." "But there are a few things you must learn about living here." "When you are rested and settled, you will be assigned work duties." "Everyone will work." "There are no exceptions." "We will help supply our Russian Partisan comrades." "We will mend clothes, we will repair weapons." "Women will learn to shoot and they will fight alongside men." "Pregnancies are forbidden." "We cannot accommodate an infant's needs here." "Today... we will start rebuilding the lives you have all lost." "This is the one place in all of Belorussia where a Jew can be free." "We welcome you into our community." "He is a Jew?" "Yes." "Reload!" "This is not a gun." "To you it is Bar Kochba's spear." "It is Samson's jawbone." "It is Ehud's sword." "It is the slingshot young David used to bring down the monster, Goliath." "And we will become warriors like the Maccabees and the Tsiccerai." "Brave men and women fighting for their freedom... as they were." "Fire!" "Good." "Buried underneath with this detonator,... ..almost touching the rail." "As the train passes its weight causes pressure... ..on the detonator..." "..and then..." "Now, this here..." "this is a knight." "He can move one, two forward and one to the side..." "Yesterday, potatoes with beets, today, beets with potatoes..." "Tomorrow, special treat, potato soup." "Stop complaining, you wenches, and keep mashing." "We love potatoes, don't we, boys?" "Yes, sir!" "We like flapcakes, blintzes..." "Thank you." "Sit down." "Put some hairs on your chest." "If you want to be a soldier, you drink!" "What are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Asael, he's having a little drink." "So... a little bird told me that a certain someone is waiting for another certain someone to ask a certain question." "Hello, Chaya." "Hello, Asael." "Let me take." "Oh, no, no!" "Are you sure?" "No, I'm fine." "Thank you." "May I help you?" "Chaya, I was wondering if..." "maybe you... I mean... you and I... if... we... I accept." "You do?" "I do." "Blessed art Thou, our God, king of the universe... who created man in His own image... and out of Himself fashioned for us... a lasting place." "Blessed art Thou, our God, king of the universe... who created all things for His glory." "Oh, gladden these loving mates... as Thou did anciently gladden Thy creatures in Eden." "Blessed art Thou, oh God... who gladdens the bridegroom and the bride." "Amen." "Amen." "With this ring, thou art consecrated to me... according to the law of Moses and Israel." "Mazel tov!" "You are related to Bielski?" "I am Bielski." "Tuvia." "This is all we have." "Cover them up." "Some talk of returning to the ghetto." "We've barely eaten for days." "What time is it?" "You have an engagement?" "is there any supper?" "Not today." "Tuvia's sending out more food missions." "You follow Tuvia like an old goat." "I'd rather be a goat than a snake." "Tuvia is doing the best he can." "We should have joined Zus." "Who's stopping you?" "Some more..." "No, that's enough." "More!" "No!" "More dead soldiers than empty bottles." "That is so..." "Russian." "At least you drink like a Russian." "A Jew can't drink, a Jew can't fight." "What is it we are good for, Viktor?" "Dying." "That's what we are good at." "Tell me about this brother of yours." "Oh, yes." "The Great Tuvia Bielski, Saviour of the Jews, and all around big shit." "You compete with him." "He competes with me." "My older brother and I have the same relationship." "He's a big shit also?" "A soldier." "He was killed in the first hour of the German invasion." "Hello." "You'll get used to it eventually." "What are you going to do today?" "Today I go on my first food mission." "I will tell Asael to send someone else." "No. I want to go." "I must go." "Here..." "You must take this." "Stay warm." "Please." "Lilka!" "Here." "Please take it." "Thank you, Tuvia." "She's a tasty one, your aristocrat." "What?" "We were told "hands oft, property of the commander"." "Tuvia, I'm beginning to see signs of some new sickness." "Two of the old ones have died this week." "Tuvia!" "Miriam!" "What happened?" "He says it was a patrol." "They're watching the roads." "The Germans are everywhere." "You go back, and stay alert!" "She will be alright." "Take your food back now." "And stay on this side of the river." "Watch out for patrols." "I'll wait here for the others." "Good luck." "Halt!" "Who goes there?" "Lazar, I'm coming from camp." "The danger's out there." "Sorry, Tuvia." "Any sign of the food mission?" "Not yet." "Go." "I think it's typhus." "If it is, we are in trouble." "The lice are carriers." "The Partisans have ampicillin, but they say they need it for themselves." "Tuvia..." "l heard you." "Medicine. I'll go see Viktor now." "What happened?" "You alright?" "Fine." "Thank you." "Every time we try to move,... ..they radio back to the transmitter at police HQ." "So we attack the transmitter." "Yes, my Hebrew Warrior." "Except the place is swarming with police." "What's this... two Bielskis at once?" "To what do we owe this honour?" "We have sickness. I need ampicillin." "Medicine's only for fighters." "If we have typhus it may spread to your camp." " l will have to take that chance." " l must insist." "Comrade." "You'd better not." "There is medicine in the Stankiewcze police station, yes?" "Tuvia and I grew up there." "The Bielski Otriad can destroy the transmitter." "You're too sick." "Stay in the truck." "Make sure it's in gear when we get back." "No, I'm coming with you." "I give the orders tonight." "You don't have to do this." "I don't?" "What about the typhus?" "Some will die." "They will anyway." "Zus..." "For luck." "Take it." "Go!" "What about the others?" "Drive the fucking truck!" "The others?" "Fighters die so that malbushim may live." "That's what you believe, yes?" "Are you a communist now, Zus?" "Communist, Zionist, fascist..." "What difterence does it make as long as you get your medicine?" "Come back to us." "You're my brother." "So you remember." "Merciful God... we commit our friends Ben Zion and Krensky to your care." "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 Prophecies." "Grant us but one more blessing." "Take back the gift of our holiness." "Amen." "Amen." "This amount is shit." "Take your hand and dig it to the bottom of the pot!" "And give me some of the meat!" "Get your hands oft!" "What do you think you're doing?" "Pisher, who do you think you are?" "I am in charge here." "Get back in line." "Go away, little man." "I'll take the skin oft your face!" "Come on!" "I'll kill you!" "Get back!" "Put that away." "Put it away!" "What is happening here?" "Those who risk their lives to bring back food deserve a larger portion than those who risk nothing." "Everybody gets the same portion!" "Not when your little bitch is serving, they don't!" "She is my wife!" "Shut up!" "Everybody gets the same." "Anybody caught stealing will face consequences." "What consequences?" "Half rations." "One week." "Both of you." "What?" "You questioning me?" "This matter is settled." "You get back in line." "Get back in line." "Tuvia!" "l would never -- -l know." "Then why am I to be punished?" "On food missions, they take first for themselves and only bring back what's left over." "And they spread rumors that you are power-hungry and corrupt... that you take whatever woman you choose... that we keep the gold for ourselves, and that you " "What?" "What else?" "That you're no longer fit to lead us." "Maybe they're right." "Zus would have punched him senseless." "Yes, I know." "Well, I miss him." "He made his choice." "Lova, what happened?" "Who did this to you?" "Gramov." "Two others." "I used the ofticers' latrine." "They said they won't shit in the same hole as a Jew." "Forgive me, Commander." "Zus." "Join us." "I want to report the mistreatment of a comrade." "This man beat Comrade Lova for no reason at all." "I had a perfectly good reason." "He is a Jew." "And you are a savage." "Ignore him." "Let's drink." "Anti-Semitism... ..is a violation of Party discipline." "He's right." "Gramov." "Apologise to our comrade." "I apologise..." "Comrade Jew." "Let's have a drink." "Drink!" "Hey, Arkady!" "When will we eat?" "Where is our food?" "Lazar, you will eat with the rest of the women and the malbushim." "Tuvia?" "You must come." "I'll be there now." "The village idiot." "Lazar..." "I saw him trying to impress the girls on guard duty... and he slipped over and landed right in the ditch, face first." "Chaya, you look lovely today." "Thank you." "That looks delicious." "And you look delicious." "What happened?" "Arkady." "Arkady!" "What is this?" "New policy." "Fighters get better food." "But that is against my orders." "You are no longer Commander." "As long as I am leader of this group, you will obey my commands." "There will be no complaining, no sitting, no doing nothing." "Anyone who wants to leave, leave now." "Take his body into the woods." "Leave it for the wolves." "Do it now." "Your fever broke in the night." "The medicine helped." "How long was I asleep?" "Two days." "You nursed me?" "I should get up." "No, no, no, no." "Did you study nursing?" "I was at university." "What did you do before the war?" "My wife..." "Her father had a business." "Before the Race Laws." "And she has passed?" "Yes." "I'm sorry." "What did you study at university?" "Music." "You should rest." "Come..." "Okay..." "Thank you, Lilka." "My pleasure." "Who's got the soap?" "I know there is a little bit left." "Use the sand, Chaya." "It's good for your skin." "And look at that skin!" "And married already!" "Look at me." "I've turned into a skeleton." "When we get out of this forest, I'm going to eat only cake and grow as big as a house!" "Tamara!" "Come." "Join us." "At least the sun is warm." "I can't, Lilka." "Why?" "l'm pregnant." "l had no idea." "I've been hiding it for months, but... it's obvious now." "It could come any day." "Who is the father?" "It happened when I was escaping." "There was a... a man with a gun who stopped me." "What will happen when Tuvia finds out?" "He will understand." "No, you mustn't tell him." "l won't tell him." "I feel this new life inside me." "It's the only thing keeping me going." "And I won't give it up." "No." "Lazar says he spotted another patrol." "They're getting closer." "You hear that?" "She promises not to take extra food." "lt's against my orders!" "So you are going to shoot her, too?" "Please, Tuvia." "The baby is all she has to live for." "I cannot allow it." "You must let it live." "l cannot keep the living alive!" "Tamara and the man who fathered this child are responsible for it." "They must leave." "She was raped by the Germans." "You tell us to hold onto our humanity." "Not to become like animals." "And what better way than by bringing the life into this world of suftering and death." "It is our only hope." "Alright." "Thank you, Tuvia." "I know what was expected of the women here, and yet you never touched me." "Lilka... I'm not afraid of anything,Tuvia." "I'm not even afraid of you." "You call that a move?" "I call it an inevitable conclusion based on an unimpeachable process of reasoning." "The question, my friend the genius, is what are you going to do about it?" "I'm thinking about what I'm going to do about it." "I got him!" "Tuvia..." "We found this one and two of his friends by the second bridge." "We killed two." "Aron was hurt, but he's a brave little soldier." "We found this." "Look what we have here!" "We found this in his pouch." "Alright?" "You read this." "Are you looking for Jews, huh?" "Look!" "We are all Jews!" "What you going to do now?" "You're not so brave now, no!" "You can't shut up, huh?" "They've assigned an entire division to surround the forest." "Don't they have a war to fight?" "The assault begins in two days." "Passover." "How fitting." "Tuvia!" "He says he has a wife and two small children." "So did I!" "If you let him go, he will lead them back here!" "Alright." "Ask him if he'll promise not to reveal our location." "He will say anything!" "Please!" "Don't!" "Stop it!" "He's one of them!" "We want justice!" "Justice!" "Justice!" "My son's name was David!" "He had blue eyes!" "He was only fifteen!" "My brother's name was Hanz!" "I don't know what's going to happen to us." "It doesn't matter." "If I had stayed in the ghetto, I would be dead." "You saved my life." "No." "You saved mine." "Zus." "The attack is coming." "We're leaving the forest." "Leaving?" "What about the Bielski Otriad?" "What about them?" "They will be slaughtered." "My priority is the lives of Soviet soldiers." "The Bielskis are sacrificed so that we can escape?" "Everyone must sacrifice so that we can keep fighting." "They're my brothers." "We are all brothers." "Comrade Bielski." "Your Jewish sentimentality is heart-warming, but counter-revolutionary!" "You and your comrades will follow Gramov,... ..and retreat as I have ordered!" "And if I don't?" "You'll be shot." "Comrade Bielski." "You are a soldier of the Motherland." "Thank you for the honour, Comrade." "Zus, what are we doing?" "Retreating." "What for?" "I don't know." "Then where will we go?" "...but the children of Israel... were afraid to leave Egypt... until Moses said "Do not trust in me." "Trust in God." "He will take care of you."" "And that is why tomorrow we will celebrate the Passover... by sitting around and arguing... just as we have done for centuries." "Did he see us?" "l don't know." "Tomorrow is Passover, yes?" "So?" "Moses, the Exodus." "He left before Pharaoh could stop them." "You want to move them all?" "The old and the sick?" "They'll never make it." "We'll leave now." "Spread the word." "Shimon, this is it." "We're going." "Children, up!" "Let's go!" "We are leaving." "Back to your zimlankas." "Tell your parents we are going." "Now!" "I want every child accounted for." "We'll carry them if we have to." "Come on!" "Hurry!" "Please hurry!" "Take cover!" "Move!" "Stay with me!" "Come on!" "In there!" "Are you alright?" "I'm alright!" "My ear...!" "Get them out of the bunkers!" "Go!" "Stay down!" "No!" "It's over!" "They're coming!" "Infantry!" "Go, go, go!" "We need to hold them up until the rest are safe." "Machine guns!" "Yes!" "With Levine and Miriam there!" "Lazar, Rosa and Schmuel there and there!" "And me." "No!" "No!" "Yes." "Come, Tateh!" "Move!" "Hurry!" "Over there!" "Take all these people with you!" "Go, go!" "l want to stay with you." "No, you must go with them." "It is too dangerous here to stay." "Rosa!" "Down there!" "No!" "Go with them!" "It is not safe here." "Don't try and fight them, Asael." "Just slow them down, then come and join us." "Chaya, please, go with them. lt's not safe." "Go with them!" "No..." "Chaya..." "Take her." "Chaya!" "Move!" "Go!" "Move, Chaya." "Go!" "Quickly!" "Let me help you." "Come." "They're moving to the right!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Oh, my God!" "We have to keep going!" "The Germans will be here any minute!" "Are the others back yet?" "Asael?" "Tuvia, do we stay or go?" "We have to wait for the others." "We can't leave them." "We could hide." "l say fight them here." "That's crazy!" "Tuvia..." "My father cannot make it." "There are snakes!" "The children..." "We will put them on our shoulders." "Tuvia, what do we do?" "We can't go without the others." "The others are dead." "Tuvia!" "What are we going to do?" "What's wrong with him?" "Come." "No." "Do you have a weapon?" "Yes." "Give it to me." "Give it to me!" "You will use this on yourself before you let them take you." "Why are we stopping?" "Asael!" "Someone take him!" "They are coming!" "Yes, I have seen them." "They are coming!" "Why aren't we moving?" "We must keep going!" "ln there?" "lt is impossible!" "Nothing is impossible!" "What we all have done is impossible!" "Tuvia!" "The troops are coming." "God will not part these waters." "We will do it ourselves." "But how?" "Not by miracles." "We will do it together." "By our strength." "You, take the rope from your pack and give it to me." "And you, give me your belt!" "Quickly!" "There's not enough rope, Asael." "Then we will link arms, make a chain." "What if someone slips?" "The strong will take care of the weak." "Give me your belts." "Give him your belt." "Give him my belt?" "Give him your belt." "Here." "How much farther?" "Keep moving." "You can't sleep here." "It's not time for sleeping now." "Come on." "My books..." "Asael, look!" "We've made it!" "Tuvia." "something to say..." "No." "You rest now." "Don't talk." "No!" "Please... I almost lost my faith." "But you were sent by God to save us." "Ridiculous." "I know." "But just in case... I thank Him... and I thank you." "Tank!" "Take cover!" "Everybody, down!" "Get down!" "Take cover!" "Take cover!" "Let's get out." "Tuvia!" "What do we do?" "Do we try and go back across the river?" "No!" "We stay and fight!" "Get the ammunition!" "To the guns!" "Isaac!" "Take those!" "Isaac!" "Ammunition, there." "No!" "Strip the bodies of weapons and ammunition only." "Take this." "Anything else?" "No." "Lilka, we've got to get the injured into the forest." "What about the dead?" "We have to keep moving." "Everybody gather your belongings!" "We must get out of the open!" "Shulman!" "Yes, Tuvia?" "Tell everybody: weapons only." "Of course." "Weapons only!" "Shulman!" "You've been promoted." "Congratulations." "Weapons only, everyone!" "Come on!" "Let's move!" "Let's move, please." "Where is the rest of your unit?" "Good question." "Are you going back?" "No." "We have a new camp to build." "Perhaps you have room for one more?" "Let's go." "Come on." "You see that?" "What?" "The forest." "Beautiful, isn't it?" "Yes, it is."