Abramorama Acquires WWII Doc ‘Resistance – They Fought Back’ Spotlighting Jews Who Combatted Nazi War Machine
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Abramorama has acquired North American rights to Resistance – They Fought Back, a documentary spotlighting Jewish resistance during WWII, from News & Documentary Emmy winners Paula S.
Apsell and Kirk Wolfinger. Featuring narration from actors Corey Stoll, Dianna Agron, and Maggie Siff, among others, the film is set for a weeklong New York run at the Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film beginning April 12, and will open in Los Angeles and additional cities nationwide thereafter.
View a trailer above. Resistance is described as a passionate refutation of one of society’s misunderstandings of the Holocaust, one which holds that Jews went to their deaths passively, “as sheep to the slaughter.” The film instead focuses on Jewish communities and individuals throughout Eastern Europe who bravely rose up in resistance against the all-powerful Nazi war machine.
There were uprisings in ghettos large and small, rebellions in death camps, and thousands of Jews fought Nazis in the forests.
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