Aviya's Summer (1988)

Aviya's Summer (1988)

1988-07-14 Israel 95 Min. PG-13
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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.

Cast

Gila Almagor is Henya Aleksandrowicz
Henya Aleksandrowicz
Kaipu Cohen is Aviya Aleksandrowicz
Aviya Aleksandrowicz
Eli Cohen is Max Gantz
Max Gantz
Marina Rossetti is Lena Gantz
Lena Gantz
Rami Baruch is Haim Altman
Haim Altman
Ruthy Wysenbeek is Masha Gantz
Masha Gantz
Sandra Sade is Aunt Alice
Aunt Alice
Yitzhak Goren is Teacher
Solly Ganor is Dr. Engel
Dr. Engel
Ilana Reff is Nurse #2
Nurse #2