Poles are angry about a movie titled Defiance - in Polish Opor (resistance). The film has been booed in theaters across the country and even banned because of the perception that it is re-writing history and is anti-Polish.

The film is based on the book "Defiance: The Bielski Partisans" by a Holocaust survivor named Nechama Tec, a Jew who escaped Poland by posing as a Catholic.

It's true that the Bielskis' unit put up resistance against the Nazis, as well as saving Jews from the Holocaust. However many Poles believe that the Bielskis' partisans took part in a joint operation with the Soviets to wipe out Polish anti-communist units. There is also the belief that Tuvia Bielski, who some papers characterize as a drunk and a womanizer, betrayed the whereabouts of a Polish underground leader.

A number of papers were critical of the 'Hollywoodization' of the Bielski brothers.

The daily Rzecpospolita was particularly scathing of the film, leading to predictable accusations of anti-Semitism. A lead column in the paper wrote: "The Jewish groups were not squeamish when it came to procuring food. They turned to pillaging, murder and rape." The paper also took a shot at Tuvia Bielski who it described as a "bandit and hero rolled into one".