The Devil's Arithmetic

3/28/19991h 35m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ She saw the truth with her own eyes. ~

Overview:

An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs of her relatives. However, she begins to revaluate her heritage when she has a supernatural experience that transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets a young girl named Rivkah, a fellow captive in the camp. As Rivkah and Hannah struggle to survive in the face of daily atrocities, they form an unbreakable bond.

Director:

Donna Deitch

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

based on novel or book
nazi
tradition
concentration camp
holocaust (shoah)
rabbi
poland
death
woman director

Cast

Kirsten Dunst

~ as ~

Hannah Stern

Brittany Murphy

~ as ~

Rivkah

Paul Freeman

~ as ~

Rabbi

Mimi Rogers

~ as ~

Leonore Stern

Louise Fletcher

~ as ~

Aunt Eva

Leonardas Pobedonoscevas

~ as ~

Isaac

Mantas Vaitiekūnas

~ as ~

Vossel

Lilo Baur

~ as ~

Mina

Nitzan Sharron

~ as ~

Ariel

Shelly Skandrani

~ as ~

Leah

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Reviews (1)

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Written 8 year(s) ago
7
Previously I had really enjoyed Donna Deitch's earlier lesbian romance period piece, 'Desert Hearts', and I had found Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy amazing in 'Melancholia' and 'Sin City' respectively, but a TV-movie utilizing time-travel as a plot device for a spoiled Jewish teenager to come to grips with her heritage seemed quite a bold and intriguing cinematic experiment, not to mention being an entirely different can of worms than ever I've been privy to watching. Even though personally I have as little to do with Jewish customs as lesbian issues, like Deitch's earlier work, I was able to appreciate it, though I still prefer her earlier film, if I was held at gunpoint and had to rank the two.

It's a crying shame, looking at Deitch's IMDb page, that this talented San Francisco native, now 71, has been relegated to basically doing TV episodes since this came out.