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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