The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic

Release Date:  3/28/1999
Country of Release:  USA
Length:  95 minutes
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Medium:  Video
Genre:  DRA FAN WAR
Release Message:  A modern teenage girl (Kirsten Dunst) who only grudgingly accepts the Jewish traditions, is asked to "open the front door" as part of the Seder feast and enters the 1940's and steps into the life of a German death camp prisoner where she experiences all of its horrors firsthand.
Description:  A telling of the holocaust, from the perspective of a modern teenage girl who only grudgingly accepts the Jewish traditions, but when she is asked to "open the front door" as part of the Seder feast finds herself, not unlike Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, to have entered the 1940's and has stepped into the life of a prisoner in one of the German death camps where she experiences all of its horrors firsthand.