Hollywood movie star Colin Firth is set to play underground resistance leader Avraham Stern in the movie "The Promised Land," due to start shooting this summer, Haaretz reports.
The film takes place in British-controlled Palestine and follows Stern, leader of the Lehi. The Lehi are trying to expel British forces, while British officers (played by Jim Sturgess and Michael Macfayden) try to thwart their efforts. Stern and the Lehi are ultimately responsible for the infamous King David Hotel bombing in 1946.
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Due to start shooting in late summer, The Promised
Land is billed as a political crime thriller set in British-ruled
Palestine at the end of World War II, and covers the period leading to
the establishment of Israel.
Firth has been cast as Avraham Stern, the leader of the Underground
organization Lehi, which lead a violent campaign against the British
Mandate in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The British
authorities also called the Lehi "The Stern Gang."
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Sturgess and Macfadyen will play British police
officers trying to end the Jewish revolutionaries and underground
groups' violent campaign to expel the British, which culminated in the
1946 attack on the British headquarters at King David Hotel in
Jerusalem that left dozens of British soldiers dead.
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