The Devil's Arithmetic

1999

Action / Drama / Fantasy / War

10
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 4938 4.9K

based on novel or book nazi tradition concentration camp holocaust (shoah) rabbi

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Donna Deitch Photo
Donna Deitch

Top cast

Kirsten Dunst Photo
Kirsten Dunst as Hannah Stern
Dustin Hoffman Photo
Dustin Hoffman as Self
Brittany Murphy Photo
Brittany Murphy as Rivkah
Mimi Rogers Photo
Mimi Rogers as Leonore Stern
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880.54 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 1
1.6 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by talisencrw 7 / 10

Previously I had really enjoyed Donna Deitch's earlier

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.
Reviewed by alicespiral 5 / 10

Peggy Sue Got Married meets the Holocaust

An unusual take on the story of the Holocaust though rather pointless.Same as the title-what is the Devils arithmetic? The film will teach you nothing about the Holocaust. As a time travel story it works to an extent in that it concludes by bringing the girl back to her own time as if its all been a dream. Obviously its full of artistic license-the Germans all speak English and it roughly follows what we already know about the ghettoes which were to lead to the camps. I don't think anyone could be unaware of what happened in Germany in the 40s but comparing this to the various documentaries on individual POW camps or classic movies like Schindlers List and its hardly in the same class. As a time travel movie its like Back to the Future or Peggy Sue got married without the music.
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