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The Devil's Arithmetic
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, TV Movie
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers seeking an accessible, emotionally serious introduction to Holocaust remembrance through a coming-of-age story grounded in heritage and human connection.
- Tone
- bleak, dread, contemplative
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- harrowing
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- cultural identity, inherited trauma, faith, friendship, survival
- Setting
- late twentieth-century and wartime Europe, contemporary neighborhoods and a Nazi concentration camp
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