Exodus

Synopsis

"Find a comfy seat for this epic (nearly 4-hour) tale about the founding of Israel. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Sal Mineo, Exodus is based on the Leon Uris novel of the same name. Israeli resistance fighter Newman attempts to bring 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into newly partitioned Palestine after World War II." [Netflix]
I first watched this decades ago and then the first half again in 2013. The fictional characters from the Leon Uris novel draw the viewer into the story and develop the setting for the formation of the Jewish state in 1948.

Genre

Historical

Released

1960

Location

Judaism

No