Uprising (film)

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Uprising
Image:Uprising (film).jpg DVD Cover for Uprising
Directed by	Jon Avnet
Produced by	Jon Avnet
Written by	Jon Avnet Paul Brickman
Starring	Leelee Sobieski Hank Azaria
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Editing by	Sabrina Plisco
Distributed by	NBC
Release date(s)	November 4, 2001
Running time	177 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
IMDb profile

Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The film was directed by Jon Avnet and written by Jon Avnet and Paul Brickman. It was filmed in multiple locations, including Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Main cast 3 Notes 4 See also 5 External links

Plot summary

Polish Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up against the German invaders in 1943.

Tagline: They did the one thing the Nazis never expected. They fought back.

It shows the leadership of the Ghetto Uprising, the adversity they faced and how they held off the Nazis for a long time.

Main cast

• Leelee Sobieski ... as Tosia Altman
• Hank Azaria ... as Mordechai Anielewicz
• David Schwimmer ... as Yitzhak 'Antek' Zuckerman
• Jon Voight ... as Maj. Gen. Jurgen Stroop
• Donald Sutherland ... as Adam Czerniakow
• Stephen Moyer ... as Kazik
• Sadie Frost ... as Zivia Lubetkin
• Mili Avital ... as Devorah Baron
• Cary Elwes ... as Dr. Fritz Hippler
• Andy Nyman ... as Calel Wasser

Notes

• The film is in both color and black and white.
• The filming locations included Bratislava, Slovakia and Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
• This film is available on DVD.

See also

• Mila 18
• List of Holocaust films

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