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Aviya's Summer (1988)

Aviya's Summer (1988)

Drama Family
Release Date: 1988, July 14
Directors: Eli Cohen
Countries: Israel
Production: Summer of Aviya Ltd., Summer of Aviya Ltd., Gila Almagor, Gila Almagor
Cast: Gila Almagor, Sandra Sade, Rami Baruch, Avital Dicker, Kaipu Cohen, Ilana Reff, Yossi Kantz, Marina Rossetti, Ariella Miniely, Ruthy Wysenbeek, Yitzhak Goren, Solly Ganor

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

summer holocaust (shoah) survivor israel