Under the Domim Tree

 

Under the Domim Tree 1994

• Director: Eli Cohen
• Based on book: no
• Cast: all unknown to me
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• None of them
• Why?  Possibly interesting
• Seen:  22 May 2023 

Orphans of the Holocaust live in an Israeli boarding school in the early 50s. Like all teen-agers they argue, sulk, have love dramas and woes, listen to music. Unlike most teen-agers, they long for missing and probably dead parents.

Unfortunately, it’s more like a Disney teen-age melodrama, mainly because of the unsuitable music which clashes merrily with the subject. There are a few dramatic moments but they’re too close to clichés to be convincing. It’s like Pollyanna and The Parent Trap only in Hebrew and without Hayley Mills’s cheekiness to make the sugary parts palatable.

 2 ½ * of 5