Tomorrow is a Wonderful Day

Tomorrow is a Wonderful Day (1949)

אדמה

Benjamin, an adolescent boy, arrives on a bus with other boys who are new arrivals at the village. They are introduced to the class. He is still suffering from trauma and begins to hoard bread taken from storage even though the village has no lack of food. He watches other children at work but feels foreign and alienated

Date of release
1949-01-02
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
47m
Director
Helmar Lerski

Casting

Interesting facts

Adama is a film produced in Mandatory Palestine shortly before the establishment of Israel. It was directed by Helmar Lerski and filmed during 1947–1948. The plot of the film focuses on the life of a Jewish boy, who was a Holocaust survivor, trying to rehabilitate himself from the traumas he experienced by working on the land and establishing social relationships while living in the youth village Ben Shemen. The initiator of the film was Dr. Siegfried Lehman the founder of Ben Shemen. He was motivated by a desire to show the world the educational system used in the village and he also had hopes of using the film as a tool for fundraising.

Production

Dr. Lehman, the director of the youth village, conceived of the idea of making a film to represent the village when he first came to Mandatory Palestine. As early as 1926, Yaakov Ben Dov produced a short film on the first days of Ben Shemen. The success of that film was a main factor in providing incentive for the production of a full blown movie during the 1930s. Practically the film began production only after World War II.

It is difficult to define the filming of the motion picture as standard or exceptional because, at that time, there was really no film industry standard to compare with. The film was shot totally at its authentic location without use of a film studio, which was a substantial innovation for its time. The idea of using the children of Ben Shemen to play themselves was an original idea.

The young Richard Levinson, one of the pupils of the village, assisted by photographing different sites in the village prior to production thus providing opportunity for the professionals to get a detailed understanding of the location. Other assistance came from other well-known experts in the field: Zalman Louvish, Otto Sonenfeld, and Azaria Rapoport.

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