'The Diary of Anne Frank' (1959), Millie Perkins, Directed By George Stevens

[appalachiablue]

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- FULL FILM. The Diary of Anne Frank/Dnevnik Ane Frank (1959) - Full Movie - English. The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, which was in turn based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast.

Plot: In 1945, as a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies (Dodie Heath) and Mr. Kraler (Douglas Spencer), office workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by his youngest daughter, Anne. Miep promptly retrieves it for him and he receives solace reading the words written by Anne three years earlier.

The action moves back to July 1942, and Anne (Millie Perkins) begins by chronicling the restrictions placed upon Jews that drove the Franks into hiding over the spice factory. Sharing the Franks' hiding place are the Van Daans (Lou Jacobi and Shelley Winters) and their teenage son, Peter (Richard Beymer). Kraler, who works in the office below, and Miep, his assistant, have arranged the hideaway and warn the families that they must maintain strict silence during daylight hours while the workers are there. On the first day, the minutes drag by in silence. After work, Kraler delivers food and a box for Anne compiled by Otto, which contains her beloved photos of movie stars and a blank diary.

In the first pages of the diary, she describes the strangeness of never being able to go outside or breathe fresh air. She states that everybody is good at heart...

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[BigmanPigman]

1. Director George Stevens fillmed WW2 and the liberated camps

for the govt.
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1000001

"During World War II, George Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot 16mm color film documenting D-Day, the liberation of Paris, and the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, as well as horrific scenes from the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials. In 2008, this footage was entered into the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as an "essential visual record" of World War II."

[appalachiablue]

2. TY, historical records of the abomination record & preserve the facts.

My father was at the Liberation of Dachau with the Seventh Army in April, 1945. Never forget.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Wow, he must have had some interesting

experiences. Was he able to speak about it or was it something he chose to keep buried due to the horror if it all?

[appalachiablue]

5. Not much, a few stories. And we stupidly didn't ask. Awful..

Aa a child I saw this movie and it made a lifelong impact.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. She was born in 1929.

She might still be alive, had she not died in 1945. Think about it. Try to imagine what she might have written in the years since.

[BigmanPigman]

6. I did reading about Anne and studied her last few months.

https://www.annefrank.org/en/about-us/news-and-press/news/2015/3/31/anne-franks-last-months/