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.
| Tagline | She saw the truth with her own eyes. |
| Release Date: | Mar 28, 1999 |
| Genres: | TV Movie, Drama, Thriller, Fantasy |
| Production Company: | Lithuanian Film Studio, Punch Productions, Millbrook Farm Productions |
| Production Countries: | Lithuania, United States of America |
| Casts: | Kirsten Dunst, Brittany Murphy, Paul Freeman, Mimi Rogers, Louise Fletcher, Leonardas Pobedonoscevas, Mantas Vaitiekūnas, Lilo Baur, Nitzan Sharron, Shelly Skandrani, Daniel Brocklebank |
| Status: | Released |
| Budget: | $0 |
| Revenue: | 0 |
Previously I had really enjoyed Donna Deitch's earlier lesbian romance period piece, 'Desert Hearts', and I had found Kirsten Dunst and Brittany Murphy amazing in 'Melancholia' and 'Sin City' respectively, but a TV-movie utilizing time-travel as a plot device for a spoiled Jewish teenager to come to grips with her heritage seemed quite a bold and intriguing cinematic experiment, not to mention being an entirely different can of worms than ever I've been privy to watching. Even though personally I have as little to do with Jewish customs as lesbian issues, like Deitch's earlier work, I was able to appreciate it, though I still prefer her earlier film, if I was held at gunpoint and had to rank the two. It's a crying shame, looking at Deitch's IMDb page, that this talented San Francisco native, now 71, has been relegated to basically doing TV episodes since this came out.
