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The Devil's Arithmetic

She saw the truth with her own eyes.

6.8(111)19991h 35m3

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

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Director

Donna Deitch

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Lithuania, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG28 Mar 1999
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical28 Jan 2003
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical6 Jan 2000
  • JapanJP

    • Theatrical25 Nov 2002

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The Devil's Arithmetic was released on 28 March 1999.

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    talisencrw

    8/8/2016

    7/10

    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 diffe…

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