Daniel Craig hits the red carpet
Updated on 13 January 2009
Daniel Craig and other stars of the new movie Defiance have hit the red carpet in New York.
The film, based on a true story, is about three Jewish brothers who escape from Poland during the Second World War.
The siblings flee to Belarus where they team up with a group of Russian resistance fighters who endeavour to build their own village in the middle of the forest as a form of protection against Nazi attacks.
Craig, who rose to international fame after playing James Bond, plays the oldest brother Tuvia Bielski.
He said the screenplay was inspiring: "It's a story that sort of deals with what's possible, what the human spirit is capable of under extreme situations and how under absolute devastation these people managed to survive and actually prosper in an extraordinary way."
Edward Zwick, who directed Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai, said he wanted to make the movie because a story like it has never been told before.
He said: "In fact, there's never been a film that talked about the resistance and there have been hundreds that have talked about the victims.
"And I think the same spirit that these people were possessed of - the same will to resist, the same life force, the same ferocity of spirit is the same thing that animated the lives of the six million who died and we tend to forget that."
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