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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767847391
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0767847393
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledEnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 043396047433
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 09, 2004
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: June 08, 1995
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A documentary tribute to Anne Frank, featuring a rare home movie, interviews with family and friends, and extracts from her diary.
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Anne Frank has not been forgotten. More than 25 million copies of her diary--which has been turned into a play and a movie--have been sold. This intense, richly detailed documentary paints a broad portrait of Anne. Documentaries are a dime a dozen, but few stories are as truly powerful, as sincerely moving and poignant as Anne's. Director Jon Blair does a phenomenal job with this carefully detailed, thoughtful, emotional film (his previous documentary on Oskar Schindler so captivated Steven Spielberg that he was inspired to make Schindler's List). Blair unearths a 1980 interview with the only surviving member of the Frank family, Anne's father, Otto, who offers an unpublished portion of her diary. Blair also discovers previously unseen footage of her watching a 1941 wedding, the only known film of Anne to exist; it's a brief, but breathtaking image of a girl who inspired the world. Blair also interviews Peter Pepper, who hid with the Franks, and Hanneli Goslar, who befriended Anne and her sister at camp and depicts the Frank girls' last days. The most potent interview, though, is with Miep Gies, Otto's employee who risked her life to help the Franks. Gies, modest and not completely comfortable on camera, is so likable that she seems to embody Anne's touching words, spoken amidst the horror of their lives: "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." Kenneth Branagh narrates and Glenn Close reads Anne's diary excerpts. --N.F. Mendoza
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And so begins Anne Frank Remembered, a beautifully crafted in-depth look at the life, death, and timeless appeal of a young Jewish girl who wished to "live on even after my death." Filmmaker Jon Blair paints a fuller picture of who Anne Frank really was by interviewing some of the people who knew her best including childhood friends Hanneli Goslar and Jaqueline van Maarsen. Both describe the girl as a social butterfly whose very presence demanded attention and never backed down when it came to speaking her mind. Hanneli recalls a famous saying her mother made about Anne: "God knows everything, but Anne knows everything better!"
She was feisty, fun loving, and sometimes bossy. Much different than her proper, quieter sister Margot. A family friend remembers how different the Frank parents were when it came to disciplining their children. Mother Edith was the no nonsense type that scolded Anne whenever she drew negative attention to herself, but Papa Otto saw her as the apple of his eye and allowed her to be a free spirit.
Much detail is given to the tightening vise of the anti-Jewish Nazi laws and the dreaded call-up that led to the Frank's decision to go into hiding. Otto's employees including the young Miep Gies took the dangerous tasks of hiding the family (as well as the Van Pels and dentist Fritz Pfeffer). Nearing 85 at the time of her interview, Miep recalls the daily task of supplying food and other goods to those in hiding and the constant fear of discovery. Her English wasn't the best, but her occasional use of bad grammar and long pauses make her more endearing. Her meeting with Dr. Pfeffer's son Peter is so moving and real. Unfortunately he passed away after a long battle with cancer shortly afterward. Speaking of Pfeffer, those who've read the diary are already familiar with Anne's many run-ins with the seemingly stern man. Little did she know that both shared a common love of life and freedom nearly stifled by their cramped quarters.
Fellow captives Janny Brandes-Brilleslijper and Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder share their memories of the days following the arrests of those in the Secret Annex to the transit camp Westerbork and death camps Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, where Anne briefly reunited with friend Hanneli on the other side of a fence. Hanneli wonders out loud if Anne might've fought harder to survive if she'd known her father hadn't been gassed on arrival at Auschwitz. Sadly Otto was the only survivor and Miep handed over his daughter's diary only after she'd learned the girl wasn't coming back. She hated being called a hero, but what she did was truly heroic and without her Anne's diary would've been lost forever. The last part of the film covers the diary's publication and the impact it continues to make to this very day.
The most striking scene is of 12 year old Anne leaning on her balcony watching a wedding take place on the street below. The clip lasts only seven seconds yet it cements the fact that she was a real flesh and blood girl who had no idea of how her short life would end or the legacy she'd leave behind.
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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. ... Read More
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This film really does show Anne Frank from a diffrent perspective and that is she was a girl who had so many hopes and dreams. Hearing from her childhood friends, her father, and from fellow prisoners we really see how much she grew up and the very tragic end of her life in a cold, lonley concentration camp. I think people should watch this film it will stay in your mind for a long time.
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As an actor in The Diary of Anne Frank, I found this video a must in order to better understand the story. The documentary was engaging, informative and moving. Very well done.
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Good for students to view after reading The Diary of Anne Frank. They are able to see some of the real people that they read about.
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