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Evening in Byzantium (1978)

Evening in Byzantium poster
Directed by
Jerry London
Genre
tv movie, drama
Country
United States
Runtime
3h 20m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Terrorists take over the Cannes Film Festival. A group of people including a film producer and journalists get caught in the crisis.

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What happens

Evening in Byzantium is a 1978 American two-part, four-hour made-for-television drama film produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Universal Television, and directed by Jerry London, about the Cannes Film Festival being overtaken by terrorists. It stars Glenn Ford, Vince Edwards, Shirley Jones, Eddie Albert, and Erin Gray, with Edward James Olmos in a small role. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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