One of the greatest films ever made about the brave efforts of Armenians who dared to fight back against the Genocidal Turks during the Armenian Genocide. One Armenian Village protected its people and saved themselves from the Genocide in turkey in 1915. Perfect film to watch on a Saturday Afternoon, If you have not seen or heard of this film, do yourself a favor, grab some popcorn, grab a seat, and enjoy, it really is an amazing film about the true events that took place. IF YOU ARE NOT CONVINCED THIS FILM IS WORTH YOUR TIME, PLEASE AT LEAST READ THE DESCRIPTION, I AM POSITIVE THAT YOU WILL BE INTRIGUED/CURIOUS AND WILL DEFINITELY WATCH THE FILM AFTER READING ALL THE TEXT BELOW, THANK YOU. Note: To LIVELEAK MODERATORS: I have FULL permission from High Investments Film, Inc. to share this Film with the LiveLeak community, I also have the blessings of the Director Mr. Kurkjian (who happens to be a relative of mine) The purpose of this film was to spread awareness of what happened to the Armenians, and that is exactly what I am doing by sharing this film with Liveleak, please do not remove this film, it is all over YouTube and the creators of this film would have removed them from YouTube a long time ago if they did not want them to be there in the first place, Thank You. Based on true events of that time and the eyewitness was a journalist, who later wrote the book about that 40 days of heroism and struggle of this Armenian village, and turkish atrocities against the Armenian population in turkey. he Forty Days of Musa Dagh ( Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh ) is a 1933 novel by Austrian - Bohemian writer Franz Werfel based on true events that took place in 1915, during the second year of World War I and at the beginning of the Armenian Genocide . The novel focuses on the self-defense by a small community of Armenians living in a mountainous region of historical Armenia (occupied by Turkey) MGM started pre-production work in 1934 and tentatively cast a rising young star named Clark Gable to play Gabriel Bagradian. When reports surfaced in the Hollywood press about the film late in 1934, Turkey's ambassador to the United States, Mehmed M"unir Erteg"un , was ordered by his government to prevent it from being made. As the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey was intent on suppressing any mention of the Armenian Genocide. Erteg"un turned to the U.S. State Department and told them that he "earnestly hoped that would desist from presenting any such picture, which would give a distorted version of the alleged massacres." The State Department tried to assure Erteg"un that the film would not include any material that would offend Turkey but Erteg"un remained adamant. The State Department attempted to mollify the Turkish government, by presenting it with the final script, although this did not satisfy it either. The scriptwriters offered several watered-down versions but the Turkish government refused to budge. MGM's production chief was astonished by this level of interference by a foreign power, declaring, "To hell with the Turks, I'm going to make the picture anyway." The fact that MGM planned to move forward with the production further enraged Turkey. Speaking to an MGM official, Erteg"un threatened that "If the movie is made, Turkey will launch a worldwide campaign against it. It rekindles the Armenian Question . The Armenian Question is settled." Erteg"un's threats were soon being echoed across the Turkish press. In a September 3, 1935 editorial, colored with anti-Semitic overtones, the Istanbul Turkish-language daily Haber opined: "We will have to take our own steps in case the Jewish people fail to bring the Jewish company (MGM) to reason... The Forty Days of Musa Dagh presents the Turco-Armenian struggle during the World War in a light hostile to the Turks. Its author is a Jew. This means that MGM, which is also a Jewish firm, utilizes for one of its films a work by one of its companions... Declare a boycott against pictures by MGM... Jewish firms which maintain commercial relations with our country will also suffer if they fail to stop this hostile propaganda. " - Mehmed M"unir Erteg"un , Turkey's ambassador to the United States during the 1930s and early 1940s. In the face of this pressure, Louis B. Mayer of MGM, conceded to Turkish demands and the film was scrapped. Michael Bobelian, a lawyer and a journalist, observes that the " Musa Dagh incident is critical in understanding the evolution of Turkey's campaign of denying the crimes committed by the Young Turks. . . . The standoff with MGM revealed that Turkey would pressure foreign governments to go along with its policy of denial." In the early 1960s, an English publisher Gordon Landsborough , attempted to produce a film version of the book and wrote a film treatment for it. When he discovered that MGM still held the film rights he attempted to buy them but was unsuccessful as MGM announced their interest in filming it, using a script by Carl Foreman . Landsborough wrote in 1965 of rumours of political pressure holding up that new MGM production. Another movie version was mentioned in the 1967 sales film Lionpower from MGM , as being slated for production in 1968-1969 but nothing came of this version either. citation needed ] In the 1970s, MGM sold its rights to The Forty Days of Musa Dagh and after several abortive attempts, the novel was finally turned into a movie in 1982, directed by Sarky Mouradian with screenplay by Alex Hakobian. It was a low-budget, low-profile production that seriously abridged the original. I n 2006, Sylvester Stallone expressed his desire to direct a film about Musa Dagh , according to Professor Savas Egilmez of Atat"urk University . An e-mail campaign sponsored by the Foundation for the Struggle Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide (ASIMED), pressured Stallone into not proceeding with the film. In early 2009, reports surfaced that Mel Gibson was also considering directing a documentary and appearing in the adaptation of Werfel's novel but was dissuaded after receiving 3,000 e-mails from a Turkish pressure group.
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THE 40 DAYS OF MUSA DAGH (you really must watch this you will NOT be dissapointed)
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