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The two of them riding at a gallop across the hills on the white horse, she holding on behind him, dust rising

An empire rules the city.
A single glance ruins her family.

Inspired by true events

Adapted from the novel Green Eyes by Flora Ben-Amram

Jerusalem, 1914. The Ottoman empire holds the city, the war has emptied the food from the shelves and the young men from the streets, and an officer of the occupying army stops his horse outside a house in the first neighbourhood built beyond the old walls. What follows is a forbidden love story that runs from the alleys of Jerusalem to the mountains of Persia, carried by faith, superstition and a fate no one caught in it can outrun.

An officer of the occupying army at a stone parapet above the old city at dusk, his white horse waiting at the rein
A young woman on a hillside holding wildflowers, turning; behind her an officer mounted on a white horse, and the walled city in the haze beyond

A valley outside the walls, an hour a day, where it does not matter who either of them is. Everywhere else, it is the only thing that does.

A crowded imperial street running down to the water: mosques, domes and minarets above, steamers on the harbour, fezzes and turbans and caftans in the same frame
The officer mounted on his white horse in a stone street, turned to camera

Amin

Commander of the Kishle, Jerusalem's prison. An officer of the occupying army her brother is running from.

Close-up of a young woman looking down at a flower, her green eyes clear

Victoria

A daughter of a devout Jewish family, raised to be dutiful and quiet. She turns out to be neither.

The merchant's son standing among the looms of the carpet works, turned to camera

Benjamin

A rug merchant's son in Hamadan, Persia. He has dreamt her eyes for years without knowing whose they are.

The officer she cannot have and the husband she is given look so alike that she stops being able to tell them apart.

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A carpet works the length of a cathedral: arched windows, shafts of dust-light, forty looms and rolled rugs stacked down the centre aisle

Five languages, three countries,
one of the least-filmed periods in the region's history.

Format
Period drama series
45 minutes
Three seasons developed
Languages
Hebrew
Ladino
Turkish
Arabic
Persian
Source
Adapted from the novel Green Eyes
by Flora Ben-Amram
Born in Jerusalem, a fourth-generation resident of the city this series is set in. She lectured on its history and on Ladino culture, and she was fluent in six languages.
Status
Pilot script and pitch deck complete
Season one, two and three treatments complete
Represented
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A cloaked figure on a rock at the edge of the Persian mountains at dusk, a green stone alight in her cupped hands, ranges falling away to the horizon

Visual development, 2025

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