Uprising (TV 2001)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Leelee Sobieski	...	Tosia Altman
	Hank Azaria	...	Mordechai Anielewicz
	David Schwimmer	...	Yitzhak Zuckerman
	Jon Voight	...	Major-General Jurgen Stroop
	Donald Sutherland	...	Adam Czerniakow
	Stephen Moyer	...	Kazik Rotem
	Sadie Frost	...	Zivia Lubetkin
	Radha Mitchell	...	Mira Fruchner
	Mili Avital	...	Deworah Baron
	Eric Lively	...	Arie Wilner
	Alexandra Holden	...	Frania Beatus
	John Ales	...	Marek Edelman
	Andy Nyman	...	Calel Wasser
	Nora Brickman	...	Clara Linder
	Jesper Christensen	...	General Kruger

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Using radically refashioned archival footage of the Warsaw ghetto, this interview with Jon Avnet the director of Uprising talks about Marek Edelman who is an evocative memoir of his role in the rebellion that held back the Nazis for almost a month in 1943. The film begins with the growing list of prohibitions and regulations leading to the virtual imprisonment of about half-a-million Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw with inadequate space and plumbing. An overhead tracking shot shows the number of people assembled in the first months of the relocation. The daily struggle against hunger and disease, especially among the dispossessed arrivals seen in their pitful rags, is aggravated by the German demands for "deportations to the east" that many begin to suspect are camouflaged mass murders. By the close of 1942, people living in the ghetto realize they are doomed, and the rudiments of resistance are planned by a handful of the young... Written by Leonard Rubenstein  

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