Uprising (5 Stars)

If anyone has the least doubts that Leelee Sobieski is the world's best actress he should watch this film. "Uprising" tells the story of the uprising of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto against the Germans in 1943. We all know that the Jews were slaughtered by the much better armed German forces. While not denying the inevitable outcome, the film concentrates on the successes of the Jewish resistance fighters. Before they died they killed as many of the Germans as they could.

Leelee plays the role of Tosia Altman, a courier who smuggled messages out of the ghetto and brought weapon back in. The acting throughout is superb, but Donald Sutherland deserves special mention as the leader of the Jewish council, tragically pleading his countrymen to remain at peace with the Germans because he expected them to be reasonable.

Here is a photo actually taken in the ghetto at this time. It was intended as a pro-German propaganda photo to show the efficiency of the work of the German army. But what is your impression when you see it?

I feel like I should write something about the horrors of the German Nazi regime and what they did to the Jews, but I don't think I could do the subject justice. Not at this time, anyway. It's something I need to spend a whole day writing about, and I don't have the time. All I'll say for now is that the times may change, but the global hatred of the Jews doesn't. The Jewish people have returned to their land after centuries in exile, but the Moslems today present phony arguments to claim that Israel doesn't really belong to them. Some people in the west are foolish enough to support their anti-Jewish rhetoric, but they're just as naive as the westerners who thought that Hitler was sending the Jews to work camps for their own good. Islam is just as evil as National Socialism, and it has the ultimate goal of slaughtering all the Jews in Israel.