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The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

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User Rating: 7.6/10 (2,521 votes)
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Overview

Director:
George Stevens
Writers:
Frances Goodrich (screenplay) and
Albert Hackett (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
26 August 1959 (Denmark) more
Plot:
Harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 11 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Oscar Winner Shelley Winters Dies (From Studio Briefing. 16 January 2006)
Shelley Winters Dies (From WENN. 16 January 2006)
User Comments:
The Saddest and Most Touching Journal Ever Written more

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 (Complete credited cast)

Additional Details

Runtime:
180 min | Argentina:158 min | Germany:152 min | USA:171 min (FMC Library Print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (optical prints) (Westrex Recording System) | 4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints) (Westrex Recording System)
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Trivia:
In total, George Stevens spent four years working on the film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: After Anne spells milk over the coat, she starts to clean the chair and puts the glass back on the table. It vanished in the next shot. more
Quotes:
Anne Frank: I want to bring out all kinds of things that like buried deep in my heart. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in When Comedy Was King (1960) more

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8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
The Saddest and Most Touching Journal Ever Written, 15 May 2006
9/10
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

From 1942 to 1944, in a Nazi occupied Amsterdam, the thirteen years old German Jewish girl Anne Frank (Millie Perkins) lives hiding in an attic of a condiment factory with her sister, her parents, three members of another family and an old dentist. Along more than two years, she wrote in her diary, her feelings, her fears and relationship with the other dwellers.

When I was about the same age of Anne Frank, I read her book for the first time and I recall how sad I became. Then I read it at least two times more, and in the bottom of my heart, I was maybe expecting a happy ending and that this teenager and the other persons were saved after their tough struggle for survival. In the 90's, I visited her Museum and again I became very sad. Her story is certainly the saddest and most touching journal ever written and published, and shows how cruel the human being can be. This movie has been recently released on DVD in Brazil with 171 minutes running time, and I really liked it. The cinematography is very beautiful, and the tense and claustrophobic story highlights some of the most important parts of the book with minor modifications to keep the movie tense and in an adequate pace. The cast is excellent, and although having about twenty-one years old at that time, the mignon Millie Perkins performs a good Anne Frank. The person who betrayed Anne Frank and the other Jews has never been discovered. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "O Diário de Anne Frank" ("The Diary of Anne Frank")

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