The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is a 1933 novel by Austrian-Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on events that took place in 1915, during the second year of the First World War and at the beginning of the
Memorial to Franz Werfel by Ohan Petrosian in Schiller Park in Vienna. The granite pillar carries the inscription: "In gratitude and respect. The Armenian people."
An exhibit dedicated to the siege and the novel at the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Promise (2016 film)
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The Promise is a 2016 American epic historical war drama film directed by Terry George, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Robin Swicord. Set in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the film stars O
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
…appearing in the adaptation of Werfel's novel but was dissuaded after receiving 3,000 e-mails from a Turkish pressure group. In 2016, a feature film, The Promise, starring Christian Bale, appeared, which bears some resemblance to Werfel′s novel and draws from the same source material. Vakıflı…
Theatrical release poster