Anne Frank Remembered

Starring:Anne Frank, Kenneth Branagh, Peter van Pels, Bep Voskuijl, Nelson Mandela, Jan Gies, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Fritz Pfeffer, Glenn Close, Herman van Pels, Auguste van Pels, Margot Frank, Victor Kugler, Otto Frank, Johannes Kleiman
Director: Jon Blair
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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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Blair unearths a 1980 interview with the only surviving member of the Frank family, Anne's father, Otto, who offers an unpublished portion of her diary.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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