The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)

The Diary of Anne Frank is an American feature film from the year 1959. He deals with the fate of Anne Frank and her family. Based on the eponymous play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, which is based on the diary of Anne Frank, was a moving drama that is still one of the classics of the film.

Action

The 15 -year-old Jewish girl Anne must be from the Nazis with her family and friends, the Van Daan's ( in reality: van Pels ) and the dentist Dussel ( pepper) hiding in an Amsterdam rear house. For two years she persevere in a confined space, until shortly after the Allied landings in Normandy, the hiding place is discovered and the eight people to be deported to extermination camps.

More information

  • Margot Diane Baker was 20 years old, their historical role three years younger.
  • Richard Beymer was 20 years old, Peter van Daan two years younger when he died in Mauthausen concentration camp.
  • Millie Perkins was at the shooting just 20 years old, six years older than the real Anne.

The stage, which was created in the Fox studios, the back house from 1941 to 1944 is considered as somewhat similar. It is just like a room, not like several rooms shown. However, the exterior shots were taken on location in Amsterdam. In the scene at the beginning, as " Otto Frank" (Joseph Schildkraut ) enters the Prinsengracht 263 of the film, he goes into the still existing Anne Frank House, which was later converted into a museum. The people in hiding are protected in the film only Miep and Mr. Kraler and supplies, but in reality even Bep Voskuijl and Johannes Kleiman, the Anne very much liked.

Audrey Hepburn was originally intended for the presentation of Anne Frank, but they refused for two reasons. For one, they took advantage of another film project, and on the other she had lived as a child in occupied Holland and seen the atrocities of the Nazis. In order to be indirectly confronted once again, their was too much. The film was a huge success, even though historians sometimes criticized that the representation of the time will play down in the back of the house and would suggest that the people in hiding have been enjoying life in hiding. Today we also know that Anne began her diary before the immersion, and the love affair with Peter was misrepresented in the film.

The film is often shown parallel to the reading of the diary in schools.

Synchronization

The German synchronous processing originated in 1959 in the studios of the Ultra Film Synchron GmbH Munich. Synchronous directed by Josef Wolf, who also wrote the dialogue book.

Awards

The Diary of Anne Frank was born in 1960 nominated for eight Oscars, of which the film received three.

Award

  • Best Supporting Actress: Shelley Winters
  • Best Art Direction: Lyle R. Wheeler
  • Best Camera

Nomination

  • Best Supporting Actor: Ed Wynn
  • Best Costume Design
  • Best Director
  • Best Music
  • Best Picture

Reviews

" The laconic, matter-of- restrained style of the girl known diary undergoes Although largely conventional cinema - dramatization, yet force the convincing actors and the seriousness of the staging to deal with the authentic presentation, which is one of the most moving testimonies from the time of National Socialism. "

DVD Release

  • The Diary of Anne Frank. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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