The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)

6.8 ? Mar 28, 1999 1h 35m

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.

Genres

TV Movie Drama Thriller Fantasy

Release Date

March 28, 1999

Rating

6.8 /10

Runtime

1h 35m

Official Trailer from YouTube

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

Lilo Baur

Mina

Nitzan Sharron

Nitzan Sharron

Ariel

Shelly Skandrani

Shelly Skandrani

Leah

Daniel Brocklebank

Daniel Brocklebank

Shmuel

Caterina Scorsone

Caterina Scorsone

Jessica

Kirsty McFarland

Yetta

Rachel Roddy

Esther

Ieva Jackeviciute

Miriam

Philip Rham

Commandant Krieger

Daniel Rasch

Officer Steinbach

Polina Soloveicik

Sarah

Stewart Bick

Stewart Bick

Burton Stern

Rimantas Bagdzevicius

Rimantas Bagdzevicius

Photographer Mendel

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7.0/10

Aug 08, 2016

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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