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 Film Festival, in Toronto, Canada, on September 15, 2007, and was released, in Canada, on April 18, 2008.
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.Now in her 50s, Melanie is married to David Winters Plummer, a cold and grouchy older professor of history, who was once her teacher and who has been unfaithful to her with his current students. A nowelderly poet, Jakob, having survived the gulag, has recently been released from a Russian psychiatric hospital. Christopher, a nonJewish Irishman who had been interred at Drancy by mistake, now works as an entomologist in Paris. ........
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