Benjamin, a teenage Holocaust survivor, arrives and settles in the youth's village Ben Shemen during the British mandat. He is assigned to school but the burden of his war experiences hinders his integration within the communal life and he refuses every communication and every group task. Although there is no food shortage in Ben Shemen, he hoards bread. His teachers decide to help him by making him one of the torchbearers in the Chanukah ceremony, but Benjamin remains alienated. An accidental encounter with a barbed wire fence enclosing cattle floods back his concentration camp memories and he digs up the fence, destroys it and frees the cows. They proceed to damage a garden plot, which leads Benjamin finally to understand how much of worth there is in his new environment.
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Sasha Alexander
Richard Lewinsohn
Robert Schiller
Robert Ziller
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Black & White
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Steven Spielberg Jewish Archive / National Center for Jewish Film / Israel Film Archive - Jerusalem Cinematheque
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Helmar Lerski
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Feature Film
Drama
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English
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44
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Adamah
Tomorrow's a Wonderful Day
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פורום פילם
Hadassah, the Women's International Zionist Organisation of America, Inc.