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Aviya's Summer

Jul 14, 1988 · 1h 35m
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Drama
Family

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A young girl and her mother both carry the scars of their experiences during the holocaust in this drama from Israel. In 1951, Aviya is a ten-year-old girl being raised by her single mother, Henya, in a small village in Israel. Henya is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, and has come out of the experience considerably worse for wear; she's haunted by the memories of her past, and has become emotionally unstable. Circumstances for her and her daughter are hardly improved by the poverty of the newly wounded state of Israel, and their own difficult economic circumstances. Aviya, meanwhile, is obsessed with finding her missing father, and wonders if he might be the man who has just moved into their village. Henya, however, knows better, and knows why Aviya's father is never coming back to them.

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CAST

Gila Almagor
Henya Aleksandrowicz
Kaipu Cohen
Aviya Aleksandrowicz
Eli Cohen
Max Gantz
Avital Dicker
Maya Abramson
Yossi Kantz
Moshe
Rami Baruch
Haim Altman
Marina Rossetti
Lena Gantz
Ariella Miniely
Puah
Directed by Eli Cohen

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
HE
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Summer of Aviya Ltd., Gila Almagor
Country
IL

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