what is the movie exodus about

"Exodus" is a 1960 American epic historical drama film about the founding of the State of Israel. The screenplay was adapted by Dalton Trumbo from the 1958 novel. The movie was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The film is divided into two parts. The first part is about the situation in Cyprus, where thousands of Jewish Holocaust survivors are being held. Nurse Katherine "Kitty" Fremont, an American volunteer at the Karaolos internment camp, helps the refugees who are being offloaded on Cyprus. An intelligence officer succeeds in getting them back on board their ship only to have the harbor blocked by the British with whom they must negotiate. The second part of the film is about the situation in Israel as independence is declared and most of their neighbors attack them. The young Israeli activist Ari Ben Canaan fights to set up a homeland for his people. The refugees stage a hunger strike, during which the camps doctor dies, and Ari threatens to blow up the ship and the refugees. The British relent and allow the Exodus safe passage. Kitty has grown very fond of Karen Hansen Clement, a young Danish-Jewish girl searching for the father from whom she was separated during the war. She has taken up the Zionist cause, much to the chagrin of Kitty, who had hoped to adopt Karen and take her to America to begin a new life. Karen and Taha are buried together in one grave. At the burial ceremony, Ari swears on their bodies that someday, Jews and Arabs will live together and share the land.