Under the Domim Tree
Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) in a boarding school in Israel, circa 1953. The public debate on the issue of accepting German reparations for Nazi atrocities awakens the dormant individual memories of each of the youths, and creates sharp conflicts which influence their coming-of-age, with its fears, dreams, problems of identity, and first love. Aviya determined to find the tomb of her father, who died before she was born, while her mother in the mental hospital refuses to recall her painful past.
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HD
Drama
1994
102 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : Under the Domim Tree
- Duration : 102 min
- Languages : Hebrew, Dutch, Polish
- Writers : Gila Almagor (book), Gila Almagor (screenwriter), Eyal Sher (screenwriter), Eli Cohen
- Directors : Eli Cohen min
- Imdb : 7.2 (186 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.4 (189 votes)
- Actors : Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami, Yael Pearl
Movie Storyline
Aviya is the only Israeli-born girl among her schoolmates (the rest are Holocaust survivors from various European countries) in a boarding school in Israel, circa 1953. The public debate on the issue of accepting German reparations for Nazi atrocities awakens the dormant individual memories of each of the youths, and creates sharp conflicts which influence their coming-of-age, with its fears, dreams, problems of identity, and first love. Aviya determined to find the tomb of her father, who died before she was born, while her mother in the mental hospital refuses to recall her painful past.