My Father's House (1947)

בית אבי

David, a child refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, arrives in British Palestine and begins a search for his father who promised to meet him there after the war.

Date of release
1947-01-11
TMDB
3.5 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 24m
Director
Herbert Kline, Józef Lejtes, Ben Oyserman

Casting

Interesting facts

My Father's House is a 1947 British Mandatory Palestine-American drama film directed by Herbert Kline, with a script by Jewish-American novelist and journalist Meyer Levin. Kline and Levin produced the film. The cinematography is by Floyd Crosby. The film was an official selection of the 1950 Venice Film Festival. One of the lead actors was the Israeli sculptor Yitzhak Danziger, who was cast due to his exotic appearance. At the time, Ronnie Cohen, the lead actor, was nine years old. He had been born in Britain to a Zionist family and had immigrated to Israel when he was three.

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