Long, lavish but finally rather disappointing account of the brave fight by the few Jewish survivors of the German pogroms in the Warsaw ghetto during World War Two, made on location in Poland. It's estimated that about 400,000 Jews from that city perished through disease and extermination and finally 650 of them fought a savage battle against 3000 heavily-armed German troops. Tom Conti and Lisa Eichhorn are rather subdued in the leading roles and the film under-uses the talents of the sparky Rosanna Arquette, Griffin Dunne (her co-star in the recent film After Hours) and veteran Eli Wallach, who disappears too early in the story. In her last film Rachel Roberts has a handful of lines as a Jewish sympathiser who shelters Conti, while he negotiates for help from the Polish resistance forces.

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