The Devil's Arithmetic
MovieTitle | The Devil's Arithmetic |
User score | 6.8 |
Release date | Mar 28, 1999 |
Genre | TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy |
Director | Donna Deitch |
Production country | Lithuania, United States of America |
Production companies | Lithuanian Film Studio, Punch Productions, Millbrook Farm Productions |
Run time | 95 min. |
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.