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RULE

SPITI VALLEY

MELODY STREET

THE ART OF TIME

CASA CLASH

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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

$RULE — the title carved in Jerusalem limestone, a green fracture splitting the U$

An empire holds the city.A single glance undoes three families.

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 stripped the food from the shelves and the young men from the streets, and a Turkish officer reins in his white horse outside a house in the Jewish neighbourhood of Yemin Moshe. Behind the gate, sixteen-year-old Victoria looks up — and her green eyes meet his. That single glance sets an unstoppable fate in motion: a forbidden love that will consume the officer who commands the city’s prison, a Persian merchant’s son who has dreamed of those same eyes a thousand miles away, and the family that will do anything to save Victoria from herself. From the stone alleys of Jerusalem to the mountains of Persia, across a crumbling empire and five languages, RULE — inspired by true events — is an epic of desire, faith and superstition, driven by 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 love too fierce to survive and too forbidden to forgive — it breaks their minds and ruins all who dare stand between.

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. Her green eyes haunt his dreams.

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

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; 2 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 daughter of the very city this series is set in — she lectured on its history and on Ladino culture, and spoke six languages fluently.

Status: Pilot script and pitch deck complete; Season one and two treatments complete; Represented; Request materials →

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

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