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May 1, 1989 · Dark Holiday: Directed by Lou Antonio. With Lee Remick, Norma Aleandro, Tony Goldwyn, Roy Thinnes. American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.
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- Lou Antonio
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- Lee Remick, Norma Aleandro, Tony Goldwyn
- 10 The Death of St. Patrick
- 9 Good Friday
- 8 The Friday of Sorrows
- 7 The Night of Broken Glass
- 6 Samhain
- 5 Valentine’s Day
- 4 The Feast of Corpus Christi
- 3 Dia de Los Muertos
- 2 Passover
- 1 Christmas
Most of us in the Western world who celebrate the holiday, especially if we’re not particularly religious or even armchair historians, think of St. Patrick’s Dayas a fun festival marked by the consumption of copious amounts of beer. St. Patrick’s Day has always been a religious holiday, but Irish immigrants who came to the United States in search o...
For a holiday with such a nice name as Good Friday, its historical origins are rather dark in nature. However, Good Friday came from the ancient Germanic culture and language and was long ago Karfreitag(“Sorrowful Friday”). Before the contemporary world got hold of it, the holiday was celebrated by fasting, by asking for forgiveness from sin, and b...
The lesser-known holiday of the Friday of Sorrows takes place on the Friday before Good Friday and dates back to the medievaltimes of Europe. It’s like Good Friday, only for the Virgin Mary, where worshipers and the devoutly religious celebrate the suffering of the Virgin Mary as she witnessed her son dying on the cross. This remembrance takes plac...
This is a dark holiday observed in Germanyin remembrance of one of the most atrocious events of all time: the Holocaust. Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, refers to the acts that led to the events that would eventually transpire at Auschwitz concentration camp. On the night of November 9, 1938, German Nazis committed a grievous massacrein th...
Samhainis a holiday celebrated by the ancient Celts as a part of their religion before they were subjugated by Roman rule and eventually turned to Christianity (with the help of St. Patrick, no doubt). The Celts were loose-knit tribes known by the Romans as the Gauls. They shared a similar language and culture. Samhain was the ancient Celtic festiv...
Today, the watered-down tradition of St. Valentine’s Day is represented most often by thoughtful cards, chocolates, and romantic love, even courtly love not unlike that of the Middle Ages. And long before the famed St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, the brutal Mafia execution of seven men conducted by Al Caponeand his gang on February 14, 1929, there wa...
Corpus Christi could be regarded as a particularly strange holiday to those who aren’t Catholic and don’t believe in transubstantiation, the idea that food and wine can turn into the body and bloodof Christ for the believer consuming them. The Feast of Corpus Christi is a whole day to drink blood and eat flesh for devout believers. “Corpus Christi”...
The reason we can’t appropriately say that Samhain was the forerunner of Halloween is that Samhain became what Catholics celebrate as All Saints’ Day on November 1. All Saints’ Day is basically the Catholic version of Samhain, complete with celebrating those who’ve gone to Heaven and the saintstaking the place of the Celtic gods of old. Dia de los ...
Passover is a Jewish holiday in which practitioners remove all leavened bread from their homes and reenact what life must have been like when the Jews fled Egypt in the Bible. For many, it’s a celebration of the liberation of the Jews from an oppressive Egypt and the foundation of the homeland for the Israelites. The holiday begins on the 15th and ...
Christmasis both unusual and dark in its history for a few reasons. First, Christmas is an extremely modern holiday. Historically, Christians don’t celebrate birthdays as it has long been viewed as pagan to celebrate an individual’s birth on Earth rather than his dying to go to Heaven in accordance with Christian beliefs. This is why saints are rem...
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Dark Holiday is a 1989 American TV movie starring Lee Remick. It was Remick's last performance. [1] Plot. An American tourist winds up in a Turkish prison. Cast. Lee Remick as Gene LePere. Norma Aleandro as Isha. Tony Goldwyn as Ken Horton. Roy Thinnes as Jimmy. John Standing as Charnaud. Jim Antonio as Edwin Kant. Kim Lonsdale as Nancy Hurst.
- Drama, Thriller
- Lou Antonio
- Gene LePere, Rose Leiman Goldemberg
Currently you are able to watch "Dark Holiday" streaming on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM Plus Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel or for free with ads on Amazon Prime Video with Ads. Synopsis. American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want.
- Gene LePere; Isha; Ken Horton
- Lou Antonio
- 1989
- 10
A television movie based the true story of Gene LePere, an innocent American woman who, in August 1983, was arrested and put in jail while on a cruise to Turkey after being accused of smuggling antiquities. Cast & Crew. Read More. Lou Antonio. Director. Agim Coma. Tracy Kolis. Tony Goldwyn. Yomi Perry. Azdine Melliti. Film Details. Also Known As.
Dec 31, 2014 · Dark Holiday - 1989 NBC Monday Night Movie. Publication date. 1989-05-01. Topics. Lee Remick, 80s, TV movies. Language. English. ** Made-for-TV ** (This is the Original NBC TV broadcast with commercials - May 1,1989) In her final role, Lee Remick is the real-life Gene LePere, an American tourist jailed in a Turkish prison in 1983 after being ...
