Exodus Summary
Director: Otto Preminger
Genres: Drama, Historical Film
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Produced and directed by Otto_Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon_Uris. The film is concerned with the emergence of Israel as an independent nation in 1947. Its first half focuses on the efforts of 611 holocaust survivors to defy the blockade of the occupying British government and sail to Palestine on the sea vessel Exodus. Paul_Newman, a leader of the Hagannah (the Jewish underground), is willing to sacrifice his own life and the lives of the refugees rather than be turned back to war-ravaged Europe, but the British finally relent and allow the Exodus safe passage. Once this victory is assured, 30,000 more Jews, previously interned by the British, flood into the Holy Land. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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