The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic

She saw the truth with her own eyes.

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Release Date

3/28/1999

Runtime

95 mins

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A young woman's dismissal of her Jewish heritage is shattered when she's transported back to a Nazi concentration camp, where she confronts the lived reality of the Holocaust through the eyes of those who suffered it. It's a film about witnessing, remembrance, and the price of forgetting.

Mood

Dread-soakedMournfulContemplative

Themes

IdentityFamilyMemoryFaithComing of age

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violenceChild endangerment

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