Turkish censorship hampered Hollywood efforts to film ‘Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ – BBC 3

Hollywood's attempts to film “Forty Days of Musa Dagh”, Franz Werfel's epic novel depicting the Armenian guerilla troops’ fight against Turkish forces on  the mountain of Musa Dagh (in 1915), repeatedly met long-distance censorship by the Turkish government, BBC 3 says in a recent report dedicated to the literary masterpiece.

In the 50-minute footage, the authors describe the novel as the 20th century’s most thrilling historical drama portraying the true story of villagers’ self-defense and 53-day-long resistance in the Genocide period.

“For both Werfel and its many readers ‘The Forty Days of Musa Dagh’ was not just an epic tribute to Armenian resistance and survival but a warning,” say the author’s, noting that Werfel’s  works were burned and banned after Anschluss.