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Award for her 1988 tale. Despite its
unsettling images, the novel has
become part of many middle-school
curricula. The story has had such a
major impact among teenagers around
the nation that many of them have
written book reports in which they
put themselves in Hannah's shoes.
"When we were shooting the film,
there were a lot of children on the set.
Initially, I got a sense that it was corn-
pletely inappropriate for a young child
to be there," said
Deitch. "Yet, this film
is about innocent
children who were in
the wrong place at
the wrong time."
"The Devil's
Arithmetic" turned out
to be "a genuine learn-
ing experience for the
children involved, and
the parents never took
them off the set, even
during the difficult
moments," she said.
"When I got to
Vilnius, I needed
many extras and I
wanted to hire a lot of
Jewish children from
the local community
to play the parts.
Then, at one moment,
we all realized had
[these children] been
born at a different
time, they would have
lived, and died, this
story.
The film was a
labor of love from the
production compa-
nies of Dustin
Hoffman and Mimi
Rogers, and their first
collaboration.
Rogers, 43, who comes from a
Jewish background but like her former
husband Tom Cruise identifies as a
member of the Church of Scientology,
has a small role in the film as
Hannah's mother. She secured the
rights to the screenplay because she
felt it was a unique way of making the
subject matter [of the Holocaust]
accessible to young people.
Hoffman, 61, who is Jewish, was
raised in a secular home, but says his wife
of 18 years, Lisa, is more religious and
made me want to be more observant. "
They send their four children, who
are having bar and bat mitzvah cere-
monies, to Hebrew school, he said.
Hoffman said everyone involved
agreed to do the film for one single pur-
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pose: "The. experience of the Holocaust
teaches us what can happen because of
apathy. This is one of the greatest fears
that all of us should have."
The actor said it is mind-numbing
for him to consider that millions of
people, including 6 million Jews, were
killed during the first eight years of his
own life. This history is something he
wants his own children to know.
Dunst was everyone's first choice
for the role of Hannah. She received a
Golden Globe nomination and an
MTV Award for "best breakthrough
artist" in the movie Interview With the
Vampire. Just 17, she also is one of a
handful of teenaged actresses with the
"star power" to get the project pro-
duced by Showtime.
"We wanted someone to play
Hannah who was a star, and there are
not very many well-known 16-year-
old stars that you can get," said Jerry
Offsay, the Jewish president of pro-
gramming at Showtime. "And at the
same time, knowing that there are
some very, very difficult images in this
film, we wanted people to feel com-
fortable sitting down with their chil-
dren and being able to see what the
movie has to say, and discussing it."