Aviya's Summer (1988)
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
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Gila Almagor as Henya Aleksandrowicz |
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Kaipu Cohen as Aviya Aleksandrowicz |
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Eli Cohen as Max Gantz |
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Avital Dicker as Maya Abramson |
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Yossi Kantz as Moshe |
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Rami Baruch as Haim Altman |
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Marina Rossetti as Lena Gantz |
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Ariella Miniely as Puah |
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Ruthy Wysenbeek as Masha Gantz |
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Sandra Sade as Aunt Alice |
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Yitzhak Goren as Teacher |
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Solly Ganor as Dr. Engel |
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Ilana Reff as Nurse #2 |
| Writing | Eli Cohen | Writer |
| Writing | Haim Bouzaglo | Writer |
| Writing | Gila Almagor | Writer |
| Directing | Eli Cohen | Director |
| Production | Eitan Evan | Producer |
| Editing | Tova Neeman | Editor |
| Production | Gila Almagor | Producer |
| Camera | David Gurfinkel | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Shem-Tov Levy | Original Music Composer |
