Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Kirsten Dunst | ... | Hannah Stern | |
Brittany Murphy | ... | Rivkah | |
Paul Freeman | ... | Rabbi | |
Mimi Rogers | ... | Leonore Stern | |
Louise Fletcher | ... | Aunt Eva | |
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Lilo Baur | ... | Mina |
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Nitzan Sharron | ... | Ariel |
Shelly Skandrani | ... | Leah | |
Daniel Brocklebank | ... | Shmuel | |
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Kirsty McFarland | ... | Yetta |
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Rachel Roddy | ... | Esther |
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Ieva Jackeviciute | ... | Miriam |
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Philip Rham | ... | Commandant Krieger |
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Daniel Rasch | ... | Officer Steinbach (as Daniel Rausch) |
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Polina Soloveicik | ... | Sarah (as Paulina Soloveicik) |
Another telling of the Holocaust, this time 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 discovers that she has been whirled into the 1940s and stepped into the life of a prisoner in one of the German death camps, where she experiences its horrors firsthand. Written by BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
I believe that this movie was well acted as well as well thought out. The Question really is;"How do I tell young people about this terrible tragedy without being to graphic and still holding their attention. I think that the movie answered that question admirably. Kirsten Dunst is a great actress that showed her ability to tell a serious story with a sense of lightheartedness. Let's not forgot Brittany Murphy. She is a highly underrated actress who just barely broke the surface of what she can do in this movie. overall, if your looking to tell/show a group of preteen/teens the story of the holocaust without the brutality then this is the ONLY movie to show them.