Noyce One Mate

Australian director Philip Noyce will direct The Bielski Brothers, the World War II story of three heroic brothers who saved over twelve hundred of their fellow Jews from the Holocaust. The film is based on the non-fiction American bestseller of the same name by Peter Duffy. Noyce is currently working on American Pastoral, which should be out next year. The Bielski Brothers is the kind of story that sounds like it was invented in a Hollywood basement. During World War II, three Jewish brothers in Belarus witnessed the murder of their parents by Nazi soldiers. They fled into the dense forests around their town and brought friends and relatives in to join them. In time, they got messages to Jewish ghettos inviting more people in