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After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.


“She saw the truth with her own eyes.”
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.

Kirsten Dunst
Hannah Stern

Brittany Murphy
Rivkah

Paul Freeman
Rabbi

Mimi Rogers
Leonore Stern

Louise Fletcher
Aunt Eva

Leonardas Pobedonoscevas
Isaac

Mantas Vaitiekūnas
Vossel
Lilo Baur
Mina

Nitzan Sharron
Ariel

Shelly Skandrani
Leah
The Devil's Arithmetic is a tv movie, drama, thriller, fantasy film released in 1999 exploring themes of based on novel or book, nazi, tradition, concentration camp, holocaust (shoah), rabbi. Directed by Donna Deitch, it stars Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman. 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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