Anne Frank - The Whole Story
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Movie Reviews of Anne Frank - The Whole Story
Movie Review: Saddest film ever
Summary: 5 Stars
This is perhaps, one of the most saddest films I have seen in my life. Along with Schindler's List and The Piano, this is one of the best WWII/Holocaust drama. Like many, I read this book as a young girl and was immediately saddened by Anne's story. Seeing in graphic detail how a well-adjusted and endearing teenage girl deals with the horrors of persecution as her family is forced into hiding to avoid the Nazi terror cannot fail to engage the heart and mind. It shows Anne before the Nazi invasion of Holland as a bubbling girl eager for education and socialisation. Her indomitable spirit is well portrayed during her family's long months of hiding in the back of a factory in Amsterdam. For me, the virtual incarceration of her family in the factory was very sad and thought-provoking. Taken from their normal lives and stripped of all those things they held dear, Anne's family strives to remain positive of better times ahead. How would we fare if required to give up all that we possessed and go into hiding for fear of our lives? A totally depressing thought, and yet that is what happened to Anne and her family.
The later scenes, after the family was captured, humiliated, separated and sent to concentration camps, is simply tragic. The concentration camp scenes are disturbing and Anne's gradual physical deterioration is depressing. It is not a movie to entertain but one to stir the emotions and the resolve to ensure that this sort of persecution and genocide is never again allowed to happen.
I don't normally get teary when I watch movies but I actually cried heavily at the end. When you watch this film, be sure to have a few tissues ready for the end.
Movie Review: Anne Frank
Summary: 5 Stars
Anne is young and full of zest;then comes the war and her once carefree life starts is downward spiral.
Anne and her family seek shelter in the house next door and during her time in exile she find herself becoming a woman both physically and emotionally .
She seemingly falls in love with young Peter whom she detested at first; betrayed, Anne and her family face the hell that was world war 2 and all that is left for Anne is destiny....a destiny where she remains forever young and innocent....
Movie Review: The perfect companion to Anne Frank's diary!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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At the very end of this movie we are presented with the following words:
"One and a half million children were murdered in the genocide the Nazis called `The Final Solution.' Anne Frank's story is only one of them." (The Nazis' final solution was to exterminate the Jews.)
And what a story it is! The story is well told through this movie.
At the beginning of this movie we are presented with the following words (information in parentheses is my own additional information):
(i) This movie is based on the book by Melissa Muller called "Anne Frank: A Biography" (1998) as well as research and interviews by an independent researcher. (I have not read this book but from what I have read, it is excellently researched.)
(ii) Some scenes can also be found in "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl." Note that the actual words from the diary were not used. (The first diary entry is for mid-June, 1942 and the last one is dated (August 1, 1944). It is also helpful to know that Anne was born June 12, 1929.)
(iii) There are realistic depictions of concentration camp life--including brief nudity.
The actual movie itself can be divided into four parts:
(1) The time before the German-Jewish Anne Frank (Hannah Taylor-Gordon) and her family go into hiding. The movie begins Feb., 1939 in Amsterdam, Holland. Some of this is based on the ten diary entries Anne made before she went into hiding. (This part of the movie lasts about 55 minutes.)
(2) The time the Frank family of four, another family of three, and an elderly dentist went into hiding in the "het achterbuis" which, loosely translated, means "secret annex" of an old three-story building. This part of the movie begins in mid-Nov., 1942 when the elderly dentist joins the two families that have been hiding since early July, 1942. We are also introduced to the four people who aided the hiding group of eight especially a young women named Miep (Lili Taylor). There is also some speculation of exactly who betrayed the hiding group. (Note that this has never been proven.) This part ends with the group of eight being discovered by the Nazis secret police (Gestapo) and being taken away on Aug. 4, 1944. (Lasts for about 75 minutes.)
(3) This part of the movie portrays what happened to Anne after the group was discovered. It ends with the viewer being taken to Amsterdam in 1945, one month after the German surrender. (Lasts about 55 minutes.)
(4) The movie ends with the printed word. In this part we get snippets of important printed information. For example:
"In 1957, Otto Frank [Anne's father, played in the movie by Ben Kingsley] established the Anne Frank Foundation, working to educate young people against intolerance and discrimination."
Another example is the quoted information that begins this review. (Lasts about 3 minutes.)
What makes this movie so powerful is the contrasts we see in each part. Part one presents the free, happy Anne; part two, the hiding, hoping Anne; and part three, the fearful, prisoner Anne.
Note that this movie has not been sanctioned by the Anne Frank Foundation. Personally, I can't understand why because it seems to follow rather closely everything I've read.
The acting in this movie is fantastic. Kudos should go to Hannah Taylor-Gordon who essentially carries the movie as Anne.
The background music adds to each scene and even the cinematography is well done.
If you haven't actually read Anne's diary, I urge you to do so. I recommend the 1993 Bantam edition that not only contains the actual diary but also information that puts Anne's diary in historical context and, as well, has pictures that illuminate the diary.
Finally, the DVD itself is perfect in picture and sound quality. There are no extras.
In conclusion, this is a powerful movie, a worthy companion to Anne Frank's diary!!
(2001; 3 hr, 10 min; made for TV; full screen; 22 scenes)
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Movie Review: Great movie for the classroom!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been teaching the story of Anne Frank with 8th grade students for the past six years and I have found this DVD to be an invaluable resource. Not only do you get to see what Anne's life was like before she went into hiding, but you also learn what happened to her after the Annex. The DVD is funny, sad and heartrending. This is a movie that every student should watch, so that nothing like the Holocaust ever happens again.Movie Review: Anne Frank - The whole story
Summary: 4 Stars
At first, I bought this DVD because I love the story in the period of II World War, especially in Europe with Nazi. This film let me see all the image that passed through this period.
I forgot the name of the girl who plays Anne Frank, She is Extra. This film is not easy to understand in detail and also not commercial. It need theconcentratation till the end. It seems there are two or three versions with the same title But this is a good one, interesting diary writen by Anne. If I would be in 1940.