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October 26, 2001/Cheshvan 9, 5762, Vol. 54, No. 7
NBC documents 'uprising'The NBC epic miniseries "Uprising" documents the true story of Jewish resistance fighters who battled the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, and Monday, Nov. 5, on NBC-Channel 12.The four-hour miniseries stars Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland, Cary Elwes, Stephen Moyer and Sadie Frost. Co-writer and executive producer Jon Avnet also directs the film, which has 125 speaking roles and a total of 20,000 extras. The Warsaw Ghetto set was approximately 300 meters (three football fields) long, and four stories high. So authentic was the set that when Simha "Kazik" Rotem, a real-life Warsaw Ghetto survivor portrayed in the film by Moyer, saw the set for the first time, he pointed to an apartment on the third floor and said "I lived there," according to NBC production notes. |
