Lacking a Homeland

Release Date: 1959-01-02

Overview: The story is set in 1926, Yemen. Naama, a popular nightclub singer, learns of her Jewish roots whilst around her, a series of violent Antisemitic attacks, orchestrated by the local Arab population, continues. Following an encounter with a shepherd and a Jewish boy whose parents were murdered, she joins a small group of Jews who are planning to move to the Holy Land (then-British Mandatory Palestine). This is the first Israeli film to have been shot in technicolour.

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Cast

Amos Arikha

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Sa'adia Damari

as

Shoshana Damari

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Shaike Ophir

as