The Devil's Arithmetic
An American-born Jewish teenager, Hannah Stern, initially disinterested in her culture, faith, and family traditions, undergoes a dramatic shift when a supernatural encounter transports her back to a Nazi death camp in 1941. There she meets Rivkah, a young girl who is also a captive in the camp. As Hannah and Rivkah struggle to endure the daily atrocities, they forge an unbreakable bond that carries them through the ordeal.
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Algimantas Maceina
Donna Deitch
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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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The directors of The Devil's Arithmetic are Algimantas Maceina and Donna Deitch.
The cast of The Devil's Arithmetic includes Kirsten Dunst as Hannah Stern, Dustin Hoffman as Self (Introduces Film) (uncredited), Brittany Murphy as Rivkah, Mimi Rogers as Leonore Stern, Aron Tager as Uncle Abe, Liubomiras Laucevičius as Doctor Hauptman, Paul Freeman as Rabbi, Philip Rham as Commandant Krieger, Lilo Baur as Mina, Louise Fletcher as Aunt Eva, Daniel Brocklebank as Shmuel, Arvydas Dapšys as Efficient Guard, and more.
The duration of The Devil's Arithmetic is 1h 35 mins.
Yes. You can watch the The Devil's Arithmetic trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
The Devil's Arithmetic was released on 28 Mar 1999.
The Devil's Arithmetic is listed under TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, and Fantasy on Fanbiz.
The Devil's Arithmetic has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "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'..."
