Otto Preminger · 1960 · sea

Otto Preminger's 1960 epic, from Leon Uris's novel. In 1947, Holocaust survivors held in a British detention camp on Cyprus are smuggled aboard the battered ship Exodus for a defiant run to British-blockaded Palestine. Through a hunger strike in Haifa harbor and the violence of the struggle for a Jewish state, the refugees and the fighters who lead them stake everything on reaching the promised land.

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   Cyprus

   The British internment camp on Cyprus where Jewish Holocaust survivors are held behind wire after the war, until a daring operation loads three hundred of them onto an old ship for Palestine.

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   The Exodus

   The overcrowded refugee ship that runs the British blockade toward Palestine, its passengers staging a hunger strike in Haifa harbor that turns the world's eyes on their cause.

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   Haifa

   The Palestine port the refugees fight to reach, gateway to the land where the survivors and the fighters of the Haganah join the struggle to found the state of Israel.