The Diary of Anne Frank

Starring:Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker, Douglas Spencer, Dodie Heath, Ed Wynn, Edmund Purdom, William Kirschner, Robert Boon, Charles Wagenheim, Frank Tweddell, Gretchen Goertz, Delmar Erickson
Director: George Stevens
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

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George Stevens (Giant) directed this 1959 film adaptation of the hit play based on the writings of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl from Amsterdam who hid in an attic with her family and others during the Nazi occupation. As Anne, Millie Perkins is something of a milky eyed enigma and--in retrospect--too old for the part; but she is surrounded by an outstanding cast, including Joseph Schildkraut as Anne's patient father, Ed Wynn as a cranky dentist who moves into Anne's "room," and Shelley Winters as the loud Mrs. Van Daan. Stevens turns the many overlapping dramas of the caged characters into the foundation of Anne's growth as a young woman, ready for life and love just at the moment the dream comes to an end. Beautifully shot by cinematographer William C. Mellor, and written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett from their stage production. --Tom Keogh

Description

A diary discovered in the attic of an Amsterdam factory reveals the plight of a jewish refugee family that lived there in hiding for two years during the Nazi occupation.

Customer Reviews:

The Diary of Anne Frank.......2007-06-26

One of the finest postwar films to deal with the human drama of the Holocaust, Stevens's tense, heartfelt adaptation of the popular stage play was based on the real-life Frank's own diaries. Schildkraut is tailor-made for the role of the ever-patient Mr. Frank, and Perkins is movingly adept at capturing Anne's adolescent turmoil in the face of impending horror. Shelley Winters's anxious, high-strung turn as Mrs. Van Dean won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Gorgeously shot in CinemaScope by Oscar winner William Mellor, "Diary" is a poignant and ultimately tragic coming-of-age tale about a kind of imprisonment from which there is no escape.

The Diary of Anne Frank.......2007-06-09

Excellent portrail of what went on during the holocaust, when in hiding.

Good for Home, less good for school.......2007-06-08

really an excellent movie--I can see why it won an Academy Award

However, I used it in my eighth grade English class and students were a little bored; several of them voiced a wish that it was in color.

Unforgetable.......2007-05-13

I think everyone in the world should see this classic,ageless movie..Its well presented, true storyline and endearing to all ages..No one must ever forget.

Grandma.......2007-05-07

This book was purchased for my 13 yr. old granddaughter. She could not put the book down. She is very interested in this subject matter. It was very enlightening for her to read about this era of history.

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Anne Frank Remembered
Anne Frank Remembered.
The ghost of Anne Frank
an adequate but distracted tribute
Ann frank

Anne Frank Remembered
Starring: Anne Frank , Kenneth Branagh , Peter van Pels , Joely Richardson , and Bep Voskuijl
Director: Jon Blair
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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Release Date: 2004-03-09

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Anne Frank has not been forgotten. More than 25 million copies of her diary--which has been turned into a play and a movie--have been sold. This intense, richly detailed documentary paints a broad portrait of Anne. Documentaries are a dime a dozen, but few stories are as truly powerful, as sincerely moving and poignant as Anne's. Director Jon Blair does a phenomenal job with this carefully detailed, thoughtful, emotional film (his previous documentary on Oskar Schindler so captivated Steven Spielberg that he was inspired to make Schindler's List). Blair unearths a 1980 interview with the only surviving member of the Frank family, Anne's father, Otto, who offers an unpublished portion of her diary. Blair also discovers previously unseen footage of her watching a 1941 wedding, the only known film of Anne to exist; it's a brief, but breathtaking image of a girl who inspired the world. Blair also interviews Peter Pepper, who hid with the Franks, and Hanneli Goslar, who befriended Anne and her sister at camp and depicts the Frank girls' last days. The most potent interview, though, is with Miep Gies, Otto's employee who risked her life to help the Franks. Gies, modest and not completely comfortable on camera, is so likable that she seems to embody Anne's touching words, spoken amidst the horror of their lives: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Kenneth Branagh narrates and Glenn Close reads Anne's diary excerpts. --N.F. Mendoza

Customer Reviews:

Anne Frank Remembered .......2007-03-13

Outstanding, it compliments the Movie to detail. Better appreciation of the Movie DVD Anne Frank.

Anne Frank Remembered........2006-11-09

This is an incredibly well put together documentary on the life of Anne Frank. I am currently teaching "Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank to a grade 8 English class. I found this documentary which interviews scores of people who actually knew Anne is excellent support material for a teacher to use in the classroom. By hearing the memories of those who knew her makes Anne's own words seem that much more vivid and poignant.

Iain Gallacher

The ghost of Anne Frank.......2006-07-18

When I first visited the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, Holland, or rather, the claustrophobic apartment in which the tennage Anne Frank and her family were cooped up for two years while seeking refuge from the Nazis, I experienced an immediate and overwhelming sense of sadness, pain, and longing. A similiar sensation overcame me when I saw this neccessary though not entirely satisfying film about her life, and indeed, does so whenever the subject of Anne Frank is broached.
But then, why shouldn't it? After all, though it may seem self-evident, the story of Anne Frank is without doubt one of the most tragic of the twentieth-century. Here was a precious human soul, bright, gifted and energetic, literally bursting at the seams with promise and potential, a person whose life was cut short by forces beyond her control. The death of Anne Frank was, in every possible sense of the word, senseless. Her murder, and by extension that of roughly six million equally innocent lives, constitute an inestimable loss.

Anne Frank is gone.

She should not be.

This must never happen again.

We must never forget Anne Frank.

But then, who can?

Her unfulfilled spirit haunts us:

Her ghost is everywhere, and always will be.

- M.R.

an adequate but distracted tribute.......2006-05-05

at very nearly two hours in length, it is far too long and goes off on too many tangents covering things weve seen before, but when it concentrates on its eponymous subject, it works very well.

Ann frank .......2005-08-20

i apsalitly love the movie i have it and it makes me cry everytime i watch it. Ann frank well never be forgottin atlest not by me .I wish hittler was never born he is a monster to kill becouse they were jews and couse there hair is'nt blonde and there eyes are'nt blue and couse he did'nt like her last name .Well this story is a real heart crushing movie and i love it and love ann frank!!!!!!

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Air Date: 12/17/06 The largest archive of Nazi documents is in Bad Arolson, Germany, where 50 million files detail the horror endured by 17.5 million victims of the Third Reich. Among the victims whose stories are held here: Anne Frank and the Jews on Schindler's list. Scott Pelley travels to the immense archive with three Jewish Holocaust survivors who see, for the first time, the detailed paperwork the Nazis kept on their torturous imprisonment.

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The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank
Good for Home, less good for school
Unforgetable
Grandma

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Director: George Stevens
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Customer Reviews:

The Diary of Anne Frank.......2007-06-26

The Diary of Anne Frank.......2007-06-09

Excellent portrail of what went on during the holocaust, when in hiding.

Good for Home, less good for school.......2007-06-08

Unforgetable.......2007-05-13

I think everyone in the world should see this classic,ageless movie..Its well presented, true storyline and endearing to all ages..No one must ever forget.

Grandma.......2007-05-07

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