Bad enough in the book that he lost his entire family (either to the death camps or the Warsaw Ghetto uprising). Not to be confused with the Book of Exodus (though the allusion to it in the title is very intentional) nor one of its adaptations, Exodus: Gods and Kings. Friendly with the kibbutzniks, but troubled by the prospect of Israeli independence.Įrnest Gold's original music score won an Oscar, beating out other celebrated scores such as Spartacus, The Alamo, and The Magnificent Seven. Taha (John Derek): the leader of the Arabic village next to the kibbutz of Gan Dafna.A relatively affable man for the leader of a terrorist organization. Akiva Ben Canaan (David Opatoshu): Ari's uncle and a commander of the Irgun.Sympathetic to the Jews, and therefore suspected of being of Jewish descent himself.
Doesn't want to send them back to Germany (which his underling Major Caldwell suggests to him), but under orders not to let the Jews get to Palestine as they wish.
General Sutherland ( Ralph Richardson): British general in command of the Cyprus detention camp where Jews attempting to get to Palestine are held.Like Karen, was on the Star of David trying to get to Palestine and manages to get there on the Exodus. Dov Landau (Sal Mineo): an angry Polish Jew who survived the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and Auschwitz.One of the 611 Jews to escape from Cyprus on the Exodus. Her mother and two brothers died in the camps, but her father may have survived and she was going to Palestine on the Star of David to find out. Karen Hansen (Jill Haworth): a German Jew whose family managed to smuggle her into Denmark where she safely hid out during the Holocaust.Feels a motherly instinct towards Karen Hansen, and wants to adopt her and bring her back to America with her. Serves as an intermediary between Ben Canaan and the General, and later falls in love with him and follows him to Palestine. Kitty Fremont ( Eva Marie Saint): a widowed American nurse who happens to be visiting her husband's friend General Sutherland when the Exodus plan is enacted.The mastermind of the Exodus plan that takes up the first hour or so of the film. Ari Ben Canaan ( Paul Newman): a leader of the Haganah (Jewish paramilitary organization fighting for Israeli independence) born in Palestine, a former member of the Jewish Corps that fought for the British during World War II, now using those skills to smuggle Jews into Palestine and fight to create an independent Jewish state.
The story follows a collection of characters in 19 as they fight the British (in order to gain independence for Israel and support for the Partition Plan) and then the Arabs (to keep their newly-established nation). Exodus is a 1960 epic film directed and produced by Otto Preminger with a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, based on a 1958 novel by Leon Uris about the founding of the modern state of Israel.
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