Anne Frank Remembered
by Jon Blair
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Actor: Anne Frank, Edith Frank, Glenn Close, Kenneth Branagh, Margot FrankDirector: Jon Blair
Brand: Sony
Writer: Anne Frank
Cinematographer: Barry Ackroyd
Producer: Jon Blair
Writer: Jon Blair
Editor: Karin Steininger
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Anne Frank Remembered
DVD Review: a very powerful documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
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. DVD Review: Anne Frank Remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: Anne Frank Remembered
Summary: 5 Stars
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.DVD Review: One of the most insightful and comprehensive documentaries on Anne Frank
Summary: 5 Stars
"Anne Frank Remembered" is a well-compiled documentary that provides deep insights - into the life of Anne Frank, the famous diarist who recorded her experiences as a Jew in hiding with her family and acquaintances in Nazi-occupied Holland, of her life before going into hiding, insights into her character as gleaned through interviews with her childhood friends and acquiantances, as well as portraying the horrific events that led to the Final Solution, i.e. the Holocaust [ film reels of Jews being persecuted & deported, scenes of concentration camps etc].
The documentary is narrated by Kenneth Branagh and excerpts from the diary are read by Glenn Close. It begins with a close look at Anne's background prior to her going into hiding with her family. Anne's family are German Jews, and Anne's father Otto actually served as an officer in the German Army during WW I. However, when Hitler came to power in 1933, his virulent anti-semitism motivates the Franks to leave Germany - most go to neutral Switzerland but Otto takes his wife Edith, and daughters Margot and Anne to Holland where he has business connections.
Through some insightful and candid interviews with Anne's childhood friends and acquiantances such as Hanneli Goslar and also Miep Gies [one of the Dutch Gentiles that helped the Frank family whilst they were in hiding], we discover Anne's natural tendency to be the center of attention, her precociousness and outspokenness.
When the Nazis invade Holland, Otto Frank decides his family should go into hiding - and arrangements are made for them to hide with the Van Pels' at the office where Otto used to conduct his business. When Margot receives a deportation order, the Franks' go into immediate hiding, giving outsiders the impression they left for Switzerland.
Once in hiding, Anne pours out her innermost thoughts and feelings to her prized confidante - her diary [a present from Otto on her 13th birthday]. Contained within the diary are Anne's intimate thoughts on the pains and joys of adolescence, her dreams and her frustrations, especially with her mother [whom Anne felt didn't really understand her] and also Mr "Dussel" [the dentist Mr Pfeffer]. It was quite a revelation to listen to Mr Pfeffer's son disagree with Anne's unflattering portrayal of his father in the diary. It was also poignant to see this grown man tear up and thank Miep Gies for helping his father go into hiding.
The latter half of the documentary attempts to reconstruct the events that occurred after the Franks and the rest were captured by the Gestapo - their brief stint in prison before being sent off to Westerbork [a transit camp] and finally deported to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. The retelling of the tragic fates that befell these innocent people is heartwrenching indeed.
The final scene that has stayed with me is of Anne watching a wedding from her apartment window - it is the only moving footage of Anne that has remained till this day...though brief, it captures this young girl in a moment in time when she was filled with all those childhood dreams, and still untouched by the tragic events that were soon to follow. It serves as a poignant reminder of what might have been had this lovely young woman lived to realise her full potential. "Anne Frank Remembered" is a must-watch documentary for students of history and for anyone with an interest in Anne or the Holocaust.
DVD Review: Superb Documentary
Summary: 5 Stars
When I was 15 I was a part of the Eisenhower People to People student ambassador program and stayed in Holland under the roof of a former member of the Dutch Resistance (the father of which was still proud to show me his old pistol, hidden away from those days). I saw the exterior of the Frank house, the Secret Annex. Now I am a Phd in European Military History, the author of five books and I mention this to give some credibility to my statement that this is a magnificent documentary. A must-have for every household in the world. The entire production is excellent and historic with oral interviews of those who were there. I was deeply touched by that steadfast bulwark of humanity, Otto Frank and by the incredibly modest and heroic Miep Gies who is a role model for all womanhood. I could write a book on my feelings about these noble people and those that lived with them and aided them. Do not miss this documentary!! Dr. David Bullock, Captain, USAFR, ret.
Description of Anne Frank Remembered
This academy award winning documentary provides incredible details surrounding the life & fate of the talented yung diarist & her family. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Narrated By Kenneth Branagh Narrated By Glenn Close Run time: 117 minutes Rating: PgAnne 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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