11 Films & TV Shows Set In Cyprus During The 20th Century
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Shadows and Faces
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1960sShadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
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The Last Homecoming
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sSummer at Cyprus seems at first like a gift for Alexandra (Maria Kitsou) and Orestes (Hristodoulos Martas), who travel from Athens to spend the season with Orestes' parents at their seaside residence. However, they soon become enveloped in the turbulence of local politics between Greeks and Turks after getting involved with a family production of a Euripides play.
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Akamas
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1960sOmeris, a Turkish Cypriot boy, grows up with Greek-Cypriots in the innocent years of his homeland. He has been taught that human beings have no differences between them, whether they call themselves Greek or Turk, Muslim or Christian. When he falls in love with a Greek-Cypriot girl, he realizes that the world is not as he imagined it to be.The game of love has many surprises in store for him. Destiny ordains that he fight so that he can stay with his beloved, at a moment when the people around him are moving in exactly the opposite direction, towards separation and partition. If he doesn't want to be defeated he must fight the absurdity of fanaticism that is invading his personal life and is trying to crush it.
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Munich
New York England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇷 France 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇱 Israel 🇱🇧 Lebanon The 1970sThe world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next. — During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
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A Walk in the Sun
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sTore Andersson is a depressed 43 year old sport journalist living in Stockholm. His girlfriend has left him so he decides to take a vacation in Cyprus.
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Attila 74: The Rape of Cyprus
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1970sThe film that gives an answer to the questions of all the Greeks about the culprits for the Cyprus' tragedy. Junta - Turkey - America. — An indictment of the protagonists in the Cypriot civil war.
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Rendezvous with Dishonor
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sIn the wake of terrorist bombings, senseless assassinations and widespread destruction in Cyprus, the attempts of local government officials to negotiate peace is thwarted by renegade guerrilla leaders. The World Council steps in and decides that the United Nations Secretary should visit Cyprus and encourage peace. But this is precisely what the fanatic priest Evagoras had hoped for...soon he will have the U.S. government and the Greek government at his mercy - when he unveils his most devious plan!
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The High Bright Sun
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sThis story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.
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Act of Reprisal
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sLove story set against the backdrop of Cyprus' struggle for independence from the British in the 1950s.
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Private Potter
🇨🇾 Cyprus The 1950sA military mission is interrupted when a soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
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Exodus
🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1940sBased on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
