# Uprising (2001)

> A two-part American miniseries following Adam Czerniaków, head of the Judenrat in the Warsaw Ghetto, as he navigates orders that force him to send his own people toward Treblinka.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/1105169

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 2
- Episode runtime: 89 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama, war, history
- Network: NBC
- Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland, Stephen Moyer, Sadie Frost, Radha Mitchell
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250798/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: somber, harrowing, restrained, mournful

## What critics say

Critics broadly acclaim the miniseries for its serious, morally weighty portrayal of the Warsaw Ghetto and the impossible choices faced by its Judenrat leader.

## Synopsis

Uprising (2001) is an American two-part miniseries created for NBC and produced by Brooklyn Films, a historical war drama built around the Warsaw Ghetto of World War II. Donald Sutherland plays Adam Czerniaków, the head of the Judenrat, the council appointed to administer the ghetto under German authority, and his struggle to obey occupying orders while protecting the Jewish community forms the moral spine of the story. Around him, Jon Voight plays SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, the German commander whose policies tighten the noose, while Hank Azaria plays Mordechaj Anielewicz and David Schwimmer plays Icchak Cukierman, young resistance leaders weighing armed defiance against survival. Leelee Sobieski plays Tosia Altmann, and Radha Mitchell and Mili Avital appear among the ghetto's other principal figures. The engine of the drama is the impossible arithmetic of occupation: every regulation, every list and every transport is a choice between lives. Told across two episodes of roughly ninety minutes each, the story unfolds in a single ghetto in occupied Poland, its streets, councils and cramped apartments rendered in sober, claustrophobic detail. The tone is grave, restrained and mournful, a reckoning with collaboration and resistance. Viewers who appreciate Schindler's List, Band of Brothers and Conspiracy will find the same weight of historical witness and moral ambiguity here.

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