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MOVIE1988 1h 35m ISR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
''Aviya's Summer'' is set in the summer of 1951, in the newly established state of Israel. The film chronicles the life of ten-year-old Aviya, whose warm, loving, and fiercely independent mother, Henya (played by Almagor herself), is tortured by periodic mental breakdowns. Henya's psychological and emotional scars stem from her horrid experience during the Holocaust, and from the loss of her husband during the war. Henya was once considered to be a beautiful and courageous Jewish partisans fighter, yet now she is constantly mocked by native Israelis for her erratic behavior. She walks the thin line between sanity and madness, attempting to forge a life for herself and her daughter in the new realities of Israel.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gila Almagor
Henya Aleksandrowicz
Yossi Kantz
Moshe
Sandra Sade
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