Anne Frank (2001)
Anne Frank is a two-part TV series by Robert Dornhelm about the life story of Anne Frank . The film is based on the biography written by Melissa Müller ( Das Mädchen Anne Frank. Die Biographie . Claassen Verlag 1998), which has been translated into more than 20 languages. For the first time, a film depicts Anne's way to the Westerbork , Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen camps . The Auschwitz concentration camp in Prague was reconstructed down to the last detail, and a row of houses was rebuilt for Prinsengracht 263 in Amsterdam - the street on which the famous hiding place in the Secret Annex was located.
From over 500 female competitors, Dornhelm selected Hannah Taylor-Gordon, who was only 14 years old from Britain during the filming . She had her black head hair cut in front of the camera and appeared partially naked in one scene for the sake of authenticity.
For legal reasons, not a single line of Anne Frank's diary could be mentioned in the script. FOX had bought the rights to a film shortly before and was planning to make its own film on the subject, which has not yet been realized.
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Anne Frank and her family lived in Amsterdam when the National Socialists occupied the Netherlands in 1940 . When the Jewish laws came into effect in Amsterdam too , the time of terror began. But it wasn't until Anne's sister Margot was asked to go to work that the Franks and their friends, the van Pels family, had to flee. Otto Frank had an apartment set up in the back of his company. Eight people live here in a confined space for two years. During this time Anne confides her feelings in her diary. On August 4, 1944, SS officers captured the people in hiding. They are taken to the Westerbork transit camp and from there deported to Auschwitz . There Anne is separated from her father. Some time later Anne and Margot are brought to Bergen-Belsen . There they see Auguste van Pels again. In February 1945 both fell ill with typhus . Shortly before her death, Anne meets her friend Hannah Goslar again. The evening before Margot's death, Anne tells her sister a few things from her previous life. When Anne wakes up the next morning, her sister is dead. Anne then looks up through the open roof at the sky.
Her father meets Miep Gies again in the Prinsengracht , to whom he tells his story. A few weeks later he learns of Margot and Anne's death and receives Anne's diary. At the end of the film there is a flashback that shows the fate of the individual people in hiding.
Remarks
- Lili Taylor and Hannah Taylor-Gordon are not related to each other.
- In the scene in which Anne reads something to the children in the Westerbork transit camp, Hannah Taylor-Gordon's four siblings can be seen in the “class”.
Awards
Among other things, the film received two Emmy awards and nine other nominations.
- Won
- Best equipment
- Best mini series
- Nominated
- Best casting
- Best camera
- Best director
- Best Male Supporting Actor
- Best main actress
- Best cut
- Best sound editing
- The best supporting actress
- Best script
Web links
- Anne Frank in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Emmy" as the best mini-series: "Anne Frank" two-part series. Press portal , November 5, 2001, accessed on August 17, 2015 .