My life with Anne Frank

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Movie
German title My life with Anne Frank
Original title The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director John Erman
script William Hanley
production Timothy J. Fee ,
Nick Gillott ,
Marjorie Kalins
music Richard Rodney Bennett
camera Peter Jackson
cut Jerrold L. Ludwig
occupation

My Life with Anne Frank is a 1988 film based on the book My Time with Anne Frank by Miep Gies and the writer Alison Leslie Gold . Although the film is relatively unknown today, it is one of the most thoroughly researched films about Anne Frank, a Jew who died in the Holocaust .

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German troops occupy the Netherlands and relentlessly persecute the Jewish population here too. Together with her husband Jan and four employees of the small Opekta company , Miep Gies , who comes from Vienna , begins hiding eight Jewish fellow citizens in a back building. Anne, with whom Miep is on good terms, begins to write a diary in which she reports on life in the Secret Annex. Miep and the other supporters of the Frank family, the Van Pels' family and the dentist Fritz Pfeffer risked a lot to protect their protégés from being attacked by the National Socialists. One day, however, Karl Josef Silberbauer enters Miep's office. The hiding place of the Jews was betrayed. Of the nine people who were deported to the concentration camps, only Otto Frank survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp . His hope is that at least Anne and her sister Margot survived. This hope is dashed by a letter in which it is stated that both died in Bergen-Belsen . Miep has nothing else to do than give Otto Frank the diary that she was able to save from being seized by Silberbauer's police henchmen. According to Insert , it has not yet been clarified who betrayed Anne and her relatives .

Background information

Partly filmed on original locations in Amsterdam , it was created with the support of Jan and Miep Gies. Although the script focuses on the character of Miep Gies , so that Anne Frank fades into the background, Anne's pseudonyms that she used in her diary (Mr. Van Daan, Mr. Dussel) are also used in the film. The casting was also carried out somewhat stereotypically: Peter Van Pels, for example, wears dark hair in the film and has a more Jewish, Mediterranean appearance; the historical Peter Van Pels had more of a Central European appearance.

The Anne Frank actress Lisa Jacobs stood in 2006 in The Ten Commandments at the side of Hannah Taylor-Gordon in front of the camera. Taylor-Gordon embodied Anne Frank in Anne Frank. Lisa Jacobs is now married to Steven Mackintosh . He stood in front of the camera as Peter Van Pels in The Diary of Anne Frank in 1987 .

Awards

In addition to five other Emmy nominations, including for Mary Steenburgen and Lisa Jacobs for Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress, the film won the Emmy in 1988 for Best Screenplay . In addition, the film editor Jerrold L. Ludwig was nominated for an Eddie Award .

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