The Devil's Arithmetic
She saw the truth with her own eyes.
1999 | 95m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Donna Deitch |
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| Writer: | Robert J. Avrech, Jane Yolen |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 28, 1999 |
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| Director: | Donna Deitch |
| Writer: | Robert J. Avrech, Jane Yolen |
| Genres: | Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie |
| Keywords | based on novel or book, tradition, holocaust (shoah), nazi, rabbi, poland, death, woman director |
| Production Companies | Lithuanian Film Studio, Punch Productions, Millbrook Farm Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Robert J. Avrech | Writer |
| Robin Katz | Editor |
| Bob Sher | Art Direction |
| William H. Angarola | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Frédéric Talgorn | Music |
| Jacek Laskus | Director of Photography |
| Alex Kavanagh | Costume Design |
| Moira Verwijk | Hair Supervisor |
| Giedrius Nagys | Stunt Coordinator |
| Dalia Vizgirdaite | Casting |
| Daiva Petrulytė | Costume Design |
| Armand Leo | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Galius Kličius | Art Direction |
| Donna Deitch | Director |
| Jane Yolen | Novel |
| Jordan Samuel | Makeup Supervisor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Lee Gottsegen | Producer |
| Murray Schisgal | Producer |
| Robert J. Avrech | Co-Executive Producer |
| Chris Ciaffa | Executive Producer |
| Robertas Urbonas | Co-Producer |
| Jay Cohen | Executive Producer |
| Mimi Rogers | Executive Producer |
| Dustin Hoffman | Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 9 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
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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.