Behind "Defiance"

" It's a story about three Brothers fighting the Nazis they were known as the deals he brigade it's a story that took more than eleven years to be told and now. Is -- to the world on the big screen in the movie defiance it's based on a small group of partisan resisters. The group's greatest leader about a hero to the people -- rescued. But as a son tells us his father probably wouldn't have considered himself one."

" My fault he was a big guy he was larger than life. He could can be tough but he was a very gentle man."

" Robert feels he describes his father to be played by Daniel Craig in the movie defiance this is the one place. In all of Belarusian -- you can be free actor alias driver was greatly moved in his role as Roberts uncles -- in the film."

" Is magnified when you realize that there's there's surviving family members around that he was a little bit more growth. My uncle who's also a ladies man. But he also was a very sensitive -- government Germans focus on this -- I won't look as if you're one with -- but we'll bring them up myself he was very difficult to these. Just in those days it was very hard to plan because every corner and they -- they were stonewalled. They were stonewalled by the Germans looking for them. There was stone -- following the local population was looking for them there was stonewalled by the Soviet partisans. Worry. Anti semantic. So everywhere they turn they had enemies. My -- told us all the stories that occurred. He always was open about it -- he wanted his children to know but on the other hand he was a humble man so. It was basically kept within the family. And so it was the family who knew him also the survivors and descendants of the survivors."

" Over the course of three and a half years to be appeals -- rescued 1200 people from the Nazis. Sheltering them in a forest in bella reduce the woods became their fortress the only way to survive."

" My father knew who my mother was prior to the war and my fault I was married to another woman. Who refuse to go into the woods because she didn't want to live like an animal. -- turned out she stayed wish he was and she was exterminated out of French. To live my mother. Was a little bit more closed about it. Because she went through some horrific taunts back and she -- most of her family if not all of her family was wiped out."

" Will the deals he remained close to her sister lost Sonia has -- his wife from the time they spent in the forest to emigrating to America Indy car actually has. If it happens. -- says if I have both -- captured beautifully in the deals he documentary in our hands by Sharon Ranariddh locust granddaughters in the I. We came to America just moved the middle class life this is not the gun. Do you have his bottom on this via a third brother -- soils could not to get out of Villaraigosa was killed serving in the Russian army had to be doing back north. Robert and his family were hands on during the making of the movie returning to his grandparents' farm and the forest where it all happened."

" Who went for the pre production in the beginning. Met with some of the directors and producers. Talk a little bit about the family and provided some. Tapes. Of my former some personal tapes. And then about six weeks later I returned with or my family and we just were treated wonderfully yeah. That's going on in the background this is the leaves were out on site. People were just amazed -- what the story was abound and the power of the story. Landed on the screen and if we should die. Trying to live. And at least we dialect human beings."

" He's watch the movie at least thirty times."

" I watched a movie a little bit differently now. Now I watch I know when the season coming up. So why watch the body language of people who -- sitting. So win. Characters like my uncle comment at the end and kill all the Nazis win. When there was no other chance I watched the body language and I see people squirming in the seats received petitions coming out. -- nice to see people you know thrown back. -- what they see on the on the screen."

" And Roberts says the survivors all say one thing after seeing the film."

" And you'll say the same thing. No interest in what respect somebody just called me from Denver Colorado. She was one of the youngest participants. And she swim for the first time about a week ago. And she sort of -- called me the next thing and she said you know it was a good movie. What you all thought it was much more handsome in that Daniel Craig."

" To be -- white Luka when a degree that I -- most of it. I think it would be science meet with the man has for Robert in this family defiance was an emotional and bittersweet remembrance."

" It's the truth be told. -- it shouldn't have been a story he shouldn't have been told. It shouldn't have happened. But he did and it's which took us from his heart as did everybody else. And this movie is made from the --"

" two BM welcome both passed away before the movie was made me want to thank Sharon rhetoric. For sharing -- film clips from the deals he documentary in our hands defiance is playing nationwide. In theaters now his."

" This is spin. -- dot TV for more stories like the one you just sell off catch the weekly television program better for your service for style trends in the relationship and beauty fitness and the other stories that will help make your day better check local TV listings to see -- better using your city. Thanks for watching."