Anne Frank Remembered
by Jon Blair
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Actor: Edith Frank, Fritz Pfeffer, Joely Richardson, Margot Frank, Victor KuglerDirector: Jon Blair
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Widescreen, 1.66:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Product features:
- 1996 Oscar Award - Best Documentary (Academy Awards, USA)
- 1995 International Emmy Award - Outstanding Documentary Program
- 1996 BSFC Award - Best Documentary (Boston Society of Film Critics Awards)
- 1996 IDA Award - Feature Documentaries (International Documentary Association)
- 1995 Wisselzak Trophy - Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Movie Reviews of Anne Frank Remembered
Movie Review: T R U E.......H I S T O R Y.......( S O B )_:
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the riviting, true and tragic story of Anne Frank -- the impish, mischievious, talented, wise, and ultimately the terribly tragic victim of circumstances. She did not live to see her dreams cf fame and fortune come true -- but she has, in death, become a symbol for the 10 million people who so needlessly died in the concentration camps of World War II. Their talents, as Anne's talents, died with them -- a loss to their surviving families, their surviving friends -- and humanity at large. Anne's gift was writing, and observation at what she wrote. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So, sadly, were all the myriad other victims....
Kenneth Branagh and Glenn Close, (who reads excerpts from Anne's Diary),narrate the film -- with objectivity and yet with tenderness and, when required, a barely-controlled, yet justified anger. This, as well as 1st-person, eye-witness words of those who knew Anne, bring her short, brilliant, and tragic existence so very vividly to life. Prejudice, sadly, has SO very, very many faces -- and I am sure that there are SOME people who might think that only Jewish people could give this disc the narration that it deserves. With feeling and rightous anger, with empathic and almost psychic feeling for those involved, Glenn Close and Kenneth Branagh -- neither one being Jewish -- show that Anne's death, and those of all the other victims, was not just a Jewish tragedy, but, far more, a Human one, as well.
This DVD tells her story simply, truely, and without undue sentimentality. As the saying goes, this DVD tells it like it was...and is. Those who knew Anne, and who survived the war, are interviewed. Meip Guies, the secretary who not only hid the Franks, but visited them every day, is seen here, as is Anne's male cousin, who lived in Switzerland during WWII. A very moving scene comes when the son of the dentist who stayed with the Franks, meets his father's protector, (Ms. Guies), for the first time. Interviews with Anne's school friends, and the friends she made and met in the two concentration camps, and one transit camp, she was in, are also given. One of these women had to tell Otto Frank, at the end of the war, that she had seen his daughters die, and she explains what happened at that emotional meeting.
Anne Frank's "secret annex" has been turned into a museum, and this DVD gives a tour of the surprisingly spacious hiding place. We see the small room with two beds in it that Anne and her sister Margot slept in, the movie-star pictures, and pictures of Royalty, with which Anne decorated the walls, the dining room, and the rest of the apartment. Also shown are the steps up to the secret hiding place, and the small bookcase, with books, that hid the "secret-annex" from the Nazis. At least for a while.
The before-the-war, early, free days, and transit-camp and concentration-camp experiences of Anne, and the other seven people who hid, are discussed by eye-witness survivors -- often Anne's "normal world" friends, who were taken, as well. They describe a girl who was not perfect -- but who had a sense of fun, of mischief, and a growing, and enormous writing talent. The suit of Holocaust-deniers, to prove the diary a fake, is aslo gone into, and the ultimate verdict -- that the diary is truly genuine, is also noted. Watching these eye-witnesses, one cannot help but realize that history is being shown before one's eyes..... (In passing, I must report that Jerry Springer, TV host and former Cincinatti mayor, gave the best counter the sadly perennial queston: "Did the Holocaust ever happen?" I believe he had been interwiewing neo-Nazis on his program, and, in the speech he always gives at the end of each show, mentioned this question. Mr. Springer looked non-plussed a moent, then said these classic words: "If the Holocaust -never happened...then what happened to all my aunts and uncles?"
How Anne's diary was turned into a book, a play, and a film are also discussed. The copyright date of this DVD is 1995 -- so the wrenching TV-drama, "Anne Frank -- the Whole Story", had not yet been produced. Nor, of course, the upcoming, (2010), Masterpiece Classics version of the Diary.
I have often though that the "Nazi" party was very-well named -- unintentioanlly well-named, at least for those who speak English. In English, the word "Nazi" is pronouched "Nat-see", (or perhaps this is a translitertion from the German). Indeed, the "Nat-sees" did "NOT see" humanity for what it really is -- a group of widely differing INDIVIDUALS, who do, (or, usually, do NOT), bear simularities to those in their own families...not to mention those within their national groups. No one is an EXACT duplicate of anyone else, after all. And who, anyway, deserves deprivation, slavery and death only because of their nationality? Obviously -- NO ONE! But the Nazis, ("Nat-sees"), didn't see this. If one is UNABLE to see, and is blind, that is a personal, and very deep tragedy, though many sightless people have bravely countered this, and have shown us all what courage is and can be. But it is very, very, VERY different from one WILL "Nat-see". that is either a personal choice, or one is a victim of stealty propaganda. Either way, this is not only a personal tragedy, in that one loses one's ability to THINK clearly and for one's self, but, if enough people become of the "Nat-see" persuasion, it becomes also a national tragedy -- for themselves, and, sadly, for so many others.
Nazis, past, (and sadly, present as well), speak of "the Master race". But if one believes in the Bible, one realizes that He created only TWO people, Adam and Eve -- and that ALL humanity is descended from those two people, only! All people, also, have the same basic body structure, inside and out....and the same basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, love, appreciation, accomplishment, etc. Further -- from reading about Anne Frank's personality -- that she was intensely interested in Royalty, that she was extremely impatient, and that she knew, inwardly, that EVERY human being has worth, value, and something to give to the world -- I begin to wonder if she was, indeed, an "Indigo" person. Indigos --in present-day, "New Age" philosophy, have thse characteristics, and some others, as hallmarks. And, in present-day, "New AGe" philosophy, these "Indigo peeople" are supposed to be the next stage in Human evolution! If this is so, as I believe it is, then Anne Frank was the future -- the Nazis, with their deadly and communicable prejudicial ideas, stereotyping, their violence, pitilessness, ruthlessness, unchecked militarism, and meglomania, were definitely of the past...showing the worst that humanity offered, from caveman to middle-ages. To, sadly, even now....
Playful, resourceful, mischievous and ever-curious Anne would have loved computers. She also would be, I think, very proud of this DVD and how it now availabe f0r playing for anyone with access to a computer. It is a sad story, but if enough people view it, it will be one force to show people living now, and in the future, of a horrible period in Humankind's history, and help to prevent it happening, to any group of people, ever again.
Five sad, weeping, but triumphant little stars :_( :_( :_(
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