Anne Frank's Diary (1980)

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Movie
German title Anne Frank's diary
Original title The Diary of Anne Frank
Country of production United States
original language English ,
German
Publishing year 1980
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Boris Sagal
script Frances Goodrich ,
Albert Hackett
production Arthur Lewis
music Billy Goldenberg
camera Ted Voigtlander
cut Garth Craven
occupation

The 1980 Diary of Anne Frank is a remake of the film of the same name from 1959. It is based on the play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett , who wrote the screenplay again. Like several other artistic processing of the historical diary , this film also focuses on the time in the Secret Annex. The narrative core is framed by two scenes that show Anne's father after returning to the hiding place.

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In November 1945, Otto Frank returns as Holocaust survivor back into the back building in Amsterdam that it during the Second World War as hiding from the Nazis served. He tells his secretary Miep Gies, who helped the people in hiding for two years, that he wanted to leave town because the memories weighed on him. Miep hands him the saved diary of his daughter Anne and he begins to read the first entry in which Anne introduces herself and summarizes the previous story up to the point of moving into the hiding place.

Miep and Mijnheer Kraler, who get food for the Jews in hiding, receive the Frank and van Daan families in the rear building on Prinsengracht. Otto explains that they have to be very quiet in their hiding place during factory working hours. At first Anne cannot be enthusiastic about the shy Peter, the son of the van Daans. Otto, on the other hand, gives her great pleasure because, in addition to her film star photos, he also brought a diary with him that helps her to better endure the restrictions in hiding. After all, the girl doesn't want to be “ladylike”, but rather live out her interest in art. Peter doesn't see Anne as a friend, but as an annoying "Miss Quak-quak". While his father is furious about the children and his wife Petronella, Anne regrets the burden on Miep. Edith wants Anne to disagree as little as her older sister Margot.

After the two families have got used to life in the hiding place, tension increases when Kraler announces another roommate. Miep's friend Dirk referred the dentist Jan Dussel to the Secret Annex. Dussel is surprised to find the Franks here because he thought they were in Switzerland. When Mr. van Daan was concerned about the food supplies, he reported on numerous deported Jews. In addition, Dussel shows his dislike for Anne, with whom he has to share a room contrary to his habit. After a nightmare, Anne only wants her father to calm her down, not her mother. She wishes that the positive aspects of her character should come to the fore.

At a Hanukkah celebration , she hands out gifts to her roommates. But suddenly after a rumble in the storage room, the fear of the Green Police breaks out, which is intensified when Peter falls from his chair. However, Otto checks the lower rooms and realizes that it was just a thief. He gives the group back the faith, whereupon they sing the Hanukkah song.

After a year and a half in hiding, Miep and Kraler bring the Jews a cake for New Year's Eve, which promptly leads to a dispute about the fair distribution. Kraler also tells of a worker named Karl who asked about Otto and asked for a raise. When Anne, who just realizes her growing sexuality, defends her generation in a debt debate, Peter is impressed. Gradually the first rapprochement occurs and the two of them do not let Petronella's comments stop them from rendezvous in Peter's room. They give each other self-confidence and Peter praises Anne for her now calmer behavior. After talking about kisses, Anne announced that she would let her boyfriend in on her diary.

But during the night, Mr. van Daan causes a new escalation in the Secret Annex because he is caught stealing a loaf of bread. Edith gets so upset that she wants to throw the van Daans out with money if necessary, which prompts Otto to state that the Jews are destroying themselves. When Dussel starts dividing the potatoes, Miep brings new good news of the beginning of the invasion in France , which brings the good mood back. Mr van Daan shows remorse and Edith regrets her words.

On the fourth of August the phone rang downstairs after the workers, Miep and Kraler had not been seen for a few days. Otto demands patience, while Anne wishes to live beyond death. She tells Peter that the world is "only going through one phase". But now it's over, the hiding place has been discovered. Otto says that after two years of fear they would now live in hope.

Upon his return, Miep and Kraler tell of the arrest and inform that the thief was the traitor. Otto believes Anne was happy after discovering the hiding place and tells of his way through the concentration camps . In Rotterdam he learned from an inmate of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that Anne had died there. His daughter believed "in spite of everything [...] in the good in people" and finally he feels bad: "How am I ashamed."

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Differences to the play and first film

For the television film, The Diary of Anne Frank was shortened by around forty minutes and the scene was reduced accordingly. While the opening scene, in which Otto Frank returns to the Secret Annex, corresponds to the representation in the original, the final conversation with Miep and Kraler is not included; there the film ends with the storming of the Secret Annex by the Gestapo. Scott Jacoby , who played Peter van Daan in the 1980 remake, is a grandson of the actor Lou Jacobi , who played Hermann van Daan in 1959.

Deviations from reality

There is no entry in Anne Frank's diary from July 6, 1942. She wrote her first entry on June 12, her thirteenth birthday, and then reported on the celebration. However, since the film is limited to the time in hiding, the previous events need to be summarized in other ways.

In the film, the pseudonyms van Daan and Dussel are used for the van Pels and Fritz Pfeffer family, which Anne had come up with for a planned publication of her diary. Victor Kugler is also referred to as Mijnheer Kraler according to Anne's idea, while the first names Dirk (for Miep's friend) and Jan (for Pfeffer / Dussel) are an invention of the film producers. In addition, Miep was actually married to Jan Gies and not just engaged when the Jews went into hiding. The other helpers Bep Voskuijl and Johannes Kleiman do not even appear in the film.

The film producers describe the stealing warehouse worker as a traitor. The worker Willem Gerard van Maaren (called Karl in the film) was indeed the main suspect for many years, but in reality it is still not one hundred percent certain who gave the Nazis the clue about the Jews hidden in the Secret Annex.

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role Voice actor
Anne Frank Juliane Korén
Otto Frank Roland Hemmo
Edith Frank-Holländer Renate Bahn
Margot Frank Blanche Kommerell
Peter van Daan Dirk Wäger
Hermann van Daan Victor Deiß
Petronella van Daan Gabriele Heinz
Jan Dussel Hasso Zorn
Miep Gies Silke Matthias
Mijnheer Kraler Peter Hladik

criticism

The lexicon of international film recognizes no innovation compared to the first film adaptation, but praises the lasting impression: “The film hardly knows how to gain new accents from the shocking adaptation from 1959. But even in the context of this staging, the claustrophobic situation does not fail to have its effect and calls for an argument. ” TV Spielfilm describes the production as“ world literature in a TV series look ”.

Awards

The film received three Emmy nominations in 1981 in the mask (makeup), camera (cinematography) and costume (costumer) categories. In the same year the production was nominated for the Golden Globe Award in the category “best mini series or TV film” .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The diary of Anne Frank. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ The diary of Anne Frank. tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 25, 2020 .