Product Details

• Actors: Gila Almagor, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Uri Avrahami, Yael Pearl, Alexander Peleg
• Directors: Eli Cohen
• Writers: Gila Almagor, Eli Cohen, Eyal Sher
• Producers: Gila Almagor, Eitan Evan
• Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Subtitles: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Fox Lorber
• VHS Release Date: March 24, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304326246
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #350,085 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A poignant and sometimes harrowing story about a group of teenagers living in a youth village for orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps of the 1950s.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A magnificent and beautiful film--a must see, November 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Under the Domim Tree [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a beautiful and moving film about the orphan children who survive the Holocaust and are sent on aliyah to Israel where they live together in a kibbutz. You will be moved to tears by this grippingly touching film which chronicles the lives of these wonderful children who have suffered so much.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A classic israeli film, April 8, 2000

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Larry Mark "editor of MyJewishBooks.com" (nyc) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Under the Domim Tree [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the next chapter in Gila Almagor's coming-of-age autobiography, begun in her film, THE SUMMER OF AVIYA. UNDER THE DOMIM TREE (or crab apple tree) continues the story five years later, in the mid-1950s, in Israel. Aviya, now 15, lives in a youth village for war orphans and teenagers from troubled homes, where she and her new friends stand in as family for one another. Aviya searches for clues to the identity of her deceased father, endures the unpredictability of her emotionally unstable mother, Henya (played by Gila Almagor herself) and is pursued by Polish-born fellow teenager, Jurek, who desperately tries to win her heart. By day Aviya and her friends laugh, play and study like other teens; by night memories of their unspeakable losses return. They find refuge together under the domim (crabapple) tree, where the story finds its surprising and exhilarating climax. Filmed in a Zionism-realism style.