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The Devil's Arithmetic

She saw the truth with her own eyes.

6.8 / 10

95 minutes

1999-03-28

English

LT

Actors :

Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman, Mimi Rogers, Louise Fletcher, Leonardas Pobedonoscevas, Mantas Vaitiekūnas, Lilo Baur, Nitzan Sharron, Shelly Skandrani, Daniel Brocklebank, Caterina Scorsone, Kirsty McFarland, Rachel Roddy, Ieva Jackeviciute

Description

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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Reviews

talisencrw

talisencrw

6/23/2021, 3:57:50 PM

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 bei...