Aviya's Summer

The story

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.

In the same saga

Aviya’s childhood

In release order

This film

Aviya's Summer

1988

Under The Domim Tree

1994

Cast

G Gila AlmagorHenya Aleksandrowicz K Kaipu CohenAviya Aleksandrowicz E Eli CohenMax Gantz A Avital DickerMaya Abramson Y Yossi KantzMoshe R Rami BaruchHaim Altman M Marina RossettiLena Gantz A Ariella MinielyPuah R Ruthy WysenbeekMasha Gantz S Sandra SadeAunt Alice Y Yitzhak GorenTeacher S Solly GanorDr. Engel

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