Uprising (2001)

The list of prohibitions and regulations grows and leads to the virtual imprisonment of Polish Jews in an old slum district of Warsaw. There is inadequate space and plumbing. The daily struggle against hunger and disease is found especially among the expelled arrivals seen in their deplorable rags. Everything is aggravated by the German strains for "deportations to the east" which the characters begin to suppose are cloaked mass murders. By the end of 1942, people living in the ghetto recognize that they are doomed. A handful of the young, including Marek Edelman (John Ales), begin to map resistance. After some spontaneous warfare in the ghetto the Umschlagplatz led by Moredecai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria), a well-known and long-drawn-out clash begins. Meanwhile, many of the ghetto inhabitants build concealed shelters in the basements and cellars of the buildings, many with tunnels to additional buildings. The few fighters with weapons take to these shelters, giving the uprising defensive positions.