#DIAREY OF ANNE FRANK DOCUMENTARY NETFLIX MOVIE#
Excerpts from the diary are mixed in with the original dialogue, which captures the way domestic minutia can easily turn into heated drama under the emotionally charged circumstances.Īt 180 minutes, the movie runs at least 30 minutes too long, and it seems now that Millie Perkins was miscast for the seminal role. Van Daan's beloved mink coat contrast beautifully with more haunting images of the confined trying desperately not to make noise as an unexpected thief trashes the office below or of Anne's nightmares of what's happened to her captured, concentration camp-bound friends. Upbeat scenes in which Anne gives out small homemade Hanukkah gifts or prances around wearing Mrs. There's an appropriate balance of foreboding, inter-personal drama, and even humor. Fifty years later, the movie is still a powerful, touching drama. Although a Pulitzer-Prize-winning play preceded it, director George Stevens's The Diary of Anne Frank is the earliest filmed version of the biographical work, and the standard for the many miniseries and plays that have followed in the past five decades. This is a poignant drama about possibly the most inspiring diarist of the 20th century.
As anyone who's read the diary knows, the Franks are eventually betrayed, and the hiding place is besieged by Nazis.
As Anne goes from an awkward 13-year-old to a mature 15-year-old, her relationship with the slightly older Peter develops into a romance, despite the fact that their shared confinement offers little privacy. Two Gentile office managers, Miep and Kraler, routinely visit with news about the war and food rations, but most of the movie follows the small daily horrors of living in constant fear and in close quarters. Since the Franks' factory is directly below them, the inhabitants of the annex must spend all day in complete silence, lest they inadvertently tip off one of the workers and lure the Gestapo. All the while, Anne keeps a running commentary in her diary. Van Daan ( Shelley Winters and Lou Jacobi), their teenage son, Peter ( Richard Beymer), and later an older dentist, Mr.
The Franks (Anne, her parents, and her older sister Margot) are sequestered in the small loft with another Jewish family, Mr. This 1959 film adaptation of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK chronicles the the two years a Jewish teen named Anne Frank (Millie Perkins) and her family spent hiding from Nazis in their Amsterdam textile factory's secret annex.
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