The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

My life with Anne Frank is a feature film from 1988, based on the book My time with Anne Frank Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold of the writer. Although the film is relatively unknown today, he is one of the most thoroughly researched films about the perished in the Holocaust Jewish Anne Frank.

Action

German troops occupied the Netherlands, and also track here adamant the Jewish population. Together with her husband Jan and four employees of small Opecta company begins a native of Vienna, Miep Gies to hide eight Jewish citizens in a courtyard. Anne, with Miep maintains a friendly relationship starts to write a diary in which she tells of life in the secret annex. Miep and the other supporters of the Frank family, the Van Pels ', and of the dentist Fritz Pfeffer risking a lot to keep their charges from the grasp of the Nazis. One day, however, Karl Josef Silberbauer Mieps enters office. The hiding of the Jews was betrayed. Of the nine people who were deported to concentration camps, only Otto Frank survived the death camp Auschwitz -Birkenau. His hope is that at least Anne and her sister Margot survived. This hope is zunichtegemacht by a letter, which says that both have come in Bergen -Belsen killed. Miep is nothing else to do than to give the diary that could save them from access by Silberbauer's police thugs, Otto Frank. Who betrayed Anne and their family members, could - according to Insert - yet to be clarified.

Background information

Partly filmed on location in Amsterdam, he was assisted by Jan and Miep Gies. While the script places the emphasis on the character of Miep Gies, Anne Frank so slightly into the background, yet find Anne's pseudonyms ( Mr. Van Daan, Mr. Dussel ) she used in her diary in the film application. Also, the casting was made somewhat stereotypical: Peter Van Pels example, carries the film dark hair, and has a more Jewish Mediterranean appearance; the historical Peter Van Pels had more of a central European appearance.

The Anne Frank Actress Lisa Jacobs stood for that matter, 2006 The Ten Commandments on the side of Hannah Taylor - Gordon in front of the camera. Taylor - Gordon embodied in Anne Frank - The True Story Anne Frank. Another more interesting cross-reference: Lisa Jacobs is now married to Steven Mackintosh. This was in 1987 in The Diary of Anne Frank as Peter Van Pels front of the camera.

Awards

In addition to five other Emmy nominations, including Mary Steenburgen and Lisa Jacobs as Best, and Best Supporting Actress, the film won the 1988 Emmy Award for Best Screenplay. Also Cutter Jerrold L. Ludwig was nominated for an Eddy Award.

1988 in film Film score Richard Rodney Bennett List of people associated with Anne Frank Bep Voskuijl Karl Silberbauer Insert (filmmaking) The Ten Commandments (TV series) Hannah Taylor-Gordon The Diary of Anne Frank (1987 BBC TV serial)
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