Exodus

original title:
Exodus
country / year of production:
USA / 1960
original length:
199 min. , color
premiere:
27 March 1960
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Leon Uris. Exodus. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
director:
Otto Preminger
film script:
Leon Uris , Dalton Trumbo
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cinematographer:
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cast (role):
Paul Newman , Eva Marie Saint , Ralph Richardson , Peter Lawford , Lee J. Cobb
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plot synopsis:
The film is about how the Britains detained thousands of Jewish refugees from different counrtries on Cyprus in 1947. The refugees wanted to enter Palästina illegaly to find a new home. After an escape and a hunger strike some of them reach their aim and become witnesses of the bloody foundation of Israel.
keywords:
escape , internment camps , Holocaust , anti-semitism , exile , post-war era
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literature:
Kathryn Bernheimer. The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critic's Ranking of the Very Best. Secaucus: Carol Publishing, 1998, 42-45.
remarks:
Won a "Grammy", a "Golden Globe" and an "Oscar" in 1961.
availability:
VHS, DVD