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Exodus

1960

After World War II, a Zionist fighter tries to spirit hundreds of Jewish refugees from a British detention camp on Cyprus to Palestine aboard a ship called the Exodus, amid the birth pangs of a new nation. Otto Preminger's sweeping historical epic.

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A major American epic whose first sustained movement concerns Jewish refugees detained in Cyprus.

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Part of 10 Movies Set in or About Cyprus

This film is stop 5 of 10 in the hand-ranked outside-view route set in or about Cyprus. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

This outside view can stamp Cyprus in the 196 country film challenge.