Emotional Arithmetic
Emotional Arithmetic is a 2007 Canadian drama film directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow. It opened at the Toronto International Film Festival, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April 18, 2008.
Plot
Emotional Arithmetic focuses primarily on three people who formed a bond in the Drancy internment camp, where they were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II: Jakob Bronski (Sydow), who saw goodness in two orphaned children in the camp, Melanie (Sarandon) and Christopher (Byrne), and who helped them to survive. Decades after their release from Drancy, their emotional wounds still affect their lives in different ways when they meet again.
More details
author | Jefferson Lewis Matt Cohen |
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director | Paolo Barzman |
editor | Arthur Tarnowski |
events | The Holocaust World War II |
genre | drama |
keywords | drancy internment camp eastern townships gourmet gourmet cook grown son gulag history internment camp married nazi nazism orphan paris poet professor psychiatric hospital quebec russia serve set up |
musicBy | Normand Corbeil |
producer | Anna Stratton Suzanne Girard |
publisher | Dreammachine Image Entertainment Seville Pictures |