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COLLECTION · Movie · 1999

The Devil's Arithmetic

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.

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* 6.8 (107)DramaFantasyThrillerLithuania · United States
Directors
Donna Deitch
Countries
Lithuania · United States
Studios
Lithuanian Film Studio · Punch Productions · Millbrook Farm Productions
Runtime
95 min
Age rating
PG(US — parental guidance)
Release
28/03/1999
Score
6.8 / 10 (107)
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Cast
Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Dunst
Hannah Stern
Brittany Murphy
Brittany Murphy
Rivkah
Paul Freeman
Paul Freeman
Rabbi
Mimi Rogers
Mimi Rogers
Leonore Stern
Louise Fletcher
Louise Fletcher
Aunt Eva
Leonardas Pobedonoscevas
Leonardas Pobedonoscevas
Isaac
Mantas Vaitiekūnas
Mantas Vaitiekūnas
Vossel
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Lilo Baur
Mina
Nitzan Sharron
Nitzan Sharron
Ariel
Shelly Skandrani
Shelly Skandrani
Leah
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★ 7.0 / 10
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.
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based on novel or booknazitraditionconcentration campholocaust (shoah)rabbipolanddeathwoman director
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