Lacking a Homeland

  • Premiere: 1959. January 2.

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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Camera

Nuri Habib

Director of Photography

Directing

Nuri Habib

Director

Editing

Nuri Habib

Editor

Sound