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* EatTheDog: As the refugees are starving in the depths of winter, Tuvia makes the difficult decision to shoot his horse (a gift from the Red Army) so they'll have something to eat. They also eat one of the Germans' dogs that they killed as it was attacking them.[[note]]Neither dogs nor horses are kosher, but they're past worrying about that.[[/note]]
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[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the [[Series/{{Defiance}} show]] or [[VideoGame/{{Defiance}} video game]] of the same name.

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[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas [[SimilarlyNamedWorks Not to be confused with]] the [[Series/{{Defiance}} show]] or [[VideoGame/{{Defiance}} video game]] of the same name.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Could be said to be so to Edward Zwick's earlier war film ''Film/{{Glory}}''.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The execution of Belarusian collaborators. There is also a scene near the end where a German soldier captured by the Bielski Partisans is beaten to death by the unnamed civilians of the group.
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The tank they fight in the final battle is a Panzer III, not a Tiger.


* MassOhCrap: The partisans and Jewish refugees when, having survived crossing treacherous marshland, they hear a rumble and spot German infantry headed by a Tiger tank coming right at them.

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* MassOhCrap: The partisans and Jewish refugees when, having survived crossing treacherous marshland, they hear a rumble and spot German infantry headed by a Tiger tank Panzer III coming right at them.
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* CoolOldGuy: the watchmaker who is able to repair broken rifles, and the brothers old schoolteacher.

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* CoolOldGuy: the watchmaker who is able to repair broken rifles, and the brothers brothers' old schoolteacher.
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''Defiance'' is a 2008 film directed by Creator/EdwardZwick, who co-wrote the movie with Clayton Frohman, based on a book (''Defiance: the Bielski Partisans'') by Nechama Tec. It stars Creator/DanielCraig, Creator/LievSchreiber, and Jamie Bell (of ''Film/BillyElliot'' fame). It follows the Bielski brothers, four Belarusian Jews who escape the first wave of SS murders in late 1941, only to decide that they need to fight back. The resulting resistance group grows, taking in more and more displaced Jews, until it is a genuine thorn in the side of the Nazi advance, forcing the Germans to retaliate.

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''Defiance'' is a 2008 film directed by Creator/EdwardZwick, who co-wrote the movie with Clayton Frohman, based on a book (''Defiance: the Bielski Partisans'') by Nechama Tec. It stars Creator/DanielCraig, Creator/LievSchreiber, and Jamie Bell Creator/JamieBell (of ''Film/BillyElliot'' fame). It follows the Bielski brothers, four Belarusian Jews who escape the first wave of SS murders in late 1941, only to decide that they need to fight back. The resulting resistance group grows, taking in more and more displaced Jews, until it is a genuine thorn in the side of the Nazi advance, forcing the Germans to retaliate.

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