SYLVESTER STALLONE GOING TO SHOOT FILM ON MUSA DAG DEFENSE DURING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.12.2006 13:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Sylvester Stallone is going to shoot a film about
the heroic defense of Musa Dag in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 basing
on Franz Werfel’s novel ’40 Days of Musa Dag’. In Stallone’s words,
during the World War I Turkey has perpetrates mass extermination of
Armenians and the film will tell how Armenians organized defense
on Musa Dag and survived with the help of French vessels. Ankara
has pursued the policy of the Armenian Genocide denial for 85 years
already, Sylvester Stallone said adding he knows that Turkey will
pose obstacles to the film shooting, reports the RA Public Television.

The Musa Dag defense has laid in the basis of the universally known
Franz Werfel’s novel titled ’40 Days of Musa Dag’. July 30, 1915 the
residents of 6 villages situated at the mountain on the Mediterranean
shore (Armenian Cilicia) arranged a self-defense transforming the
mountain into a fortress. French warships came to rescue. September
13-15, 1915 the defenders went down to the shore where they were
received aboard of Jeanne D’Ark cruiser and conveyed to Egypt. About
4 000 people survived. Most of them returned to Armenia in 1946.