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The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)

The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)

Drama Fantasy Thriller TV Movie

She saw the truth with her own eyes.

Release Date: 1999, March 28
Directors: Donna Deitch
Countries: Lithuania, United States of America
Production: Lithuanian Film Studio, Punch Productions, Millbrook Farm Productions
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Dustin Hoffman, Philip Rham, Paul Freeman, Louise Fletcher, Brittany Murphy, Liubomiras Laucevičius, Mimi Rogers, Caterina Scorsone, Daniel Brocklebank, Aron Tager, Andrius Žebrauskas

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book woman director death nazi concentration camp holocaust (shoah) poland tradition rabbi