A night in with a film

posted by: Nick Lowles | on: Sunday, 15 August 2010, 00:33

I have to say that I’m pretty tired after a long and sometimes stressful week at work. Tonight I stayed in and watched Defiance, a film about the Bielski partisans in Belarus during the war. The group was set up by three brothers and they rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazi occupation. They hid out in the forests for several years and, despite repeated German assaults, by the war’s end their numbers had swelled to 1,200.

You can read more about the Bielski partisans here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielski_partisans

It’s a Hollywood movie but it was really uplifting and inspiring.

Searchlight is about to start an anti-fascist film club, with monthly reviews and discussions about anti-fascist and anti-racist films but I thought I would jump the gun!