A couple of years back on this very blog, I shared a little dream that I had. I dreamt that Hollywood would finally discover my homeland, Belarus that is. For some weird reason Belarus had remained a real terra incognito for film-makers. Today I had a chance to watch Defiance, a true-story Hollywood drama about the Bielski brothers who, during WWII, formed a partisan detachment to save lives of Jews hiding from the Nazis in the Belarusian forests. (more…)