Stallone may bring 1915’s Armenian genocide on silver screen

Hindustan Times, India
January 19, 2007 Friday 12:47 PM EST

Washington, Jan 19 — Hollywood’s tough guy Sylvester Stallone is set
to helm a film based on the controversial book ‘The Forty Days of
Musa Dagh’, which describes the alleged Turkish massacre of the
Armenian community in 1915.

Authored by Franz Werfel, the publication of this book had raised a
huge controversy in Turkey, which never accepted it wholly to be a
historical fact.

Stallone’s plans to make a film adaptation of the book has also
raised a controversy, and the ‘Association On Struggle Against
Armenian Genocide Acknowledgement’ is urging him not to go ahead with
his decision.

"The book is full of lies, since the author got his information from
nationalist and radical Armenians. We have already sent necessary
documents about the mentioned days to the producer of the film. Our
allies will urge the producer not to produce the film," Contactmusic
quoted Chairman Savas Egilmez fumes as saying.

Stallone says that the flick will be "an epic about the complete
destruction of a civilisation. (But) talk about a political hot
potato. The Turks have been killing that subject for 85 years."

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS