Aviya's Summer

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Eli Cohen

Writers

Haim Bouzaglo, Eli Cohen, Gila Almagor

Language

Hebrew (modern)

Country

Israel

Release date

14 July 1988

Ensemble

Cast

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  Gila Almagor

  Henya Aleksandrowicz

• Kaipu Cohen

  Aviya Aleksandrowicz

• Eli Cohen

  Max Gantz

• Marina Rossetti

  Lena Gantz

• 

  Rami Baruch

  Haim Altman

• Yossi Kantz

  Moshe

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  Ariella Miniely

  Puah

• Ruthy Wysenbeek

  Masha Gantz

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  Sandra Sade

  Aunt Alice

• Yitzhak Goren

  Teacher

• Solly Ganor

  Dr. Engel

• Ilana Reff

  Nurse #2