The Devil's Arithmetic 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.
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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Full Cast & Crew... Hannah Stern
... Rivkah
... Rabbi
... Leonore Stern
... Aunt Eva
... Isaac
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See All 1 Reviews23 Jun 2021 by talisencrw
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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Release Date:
Mar 28, 1999 (Lithuania,United States)
Run Time:
1hr 35`
MMPA Rating:
PG
Original Language:
English
Production Countries:
Lithuania,United States
Status:
Released
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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.
Cast & Crew of
The Devil's Arithmetic
Directors & Credit Writers
... Director
Cast
... Hannah Stern
... Rivkah
... Rabbi
... Leonore Stern
... Aunt Eva
... Isaac
... Vossel
LB
Lilo Baur... Mina
... Ariel
... Leah
... Shmuel
... Jessica
... Yetta
RR
Rachel Roddy... Esther
... Miriam
PR
Philip Rham... Commandant Krieger
DR
Daniel Rasch... Officer Steinbach
... Sarah
... Burton Stern
... Photographer Mendel
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