"Three Jewish brothers (Craig, Schreiber and Bell) escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger."
This movie was filmed in Lithuania (I bet they even did not try to do it in Belarus:)). And people in Belarusian blogs have already started discussion about this story. The contraversion of the story is so called MASSACRE IN NALIBOKI (May 8-9, 1943). The problem with all partisans is that the whole truth is somethere inbetween. Yes, some of them were heroic and brave, but there were also those who were cruel and hostile towards paisants. I googled this title and found a website with quite resonable explanation of the situation and desription of Bielski brothers as well. According to this source:
"On 8 May 1943, two months before the Nazis obliterated the town, the Soviet partisans massacred 128 gentile men of Naliboki in a surprise night attack. They were members of the local self-defense force. Many of them also participated in the Polish underground Home Army"
It does not link Bielski to this massacre though in this source, but speaks about other murders by them.
I don't want to take any side here. To find the truth, if there is any, is the task of historians. I just know that any idea, like the idea of this film, should be taken in a critical manner.
For now, I will just post a trailer here:
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