The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988)

Miep Gies struggle to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.

Director:

John Erman

Writers:

Anne Frank (diary), Miep Gies (book)

Stars:

Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, Huub Stapel

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mary Steenburgen	...	Miep Gies
Paul Scofield	...	Otto Frank
Huub Stapel	...	Jan Gies
Eleanor Bron	...	Edith Frank
Frances Cuka	...	Mrs. Van Daan
Miriam Karlin	...	Mrs. Samson
Ronald Pickup	...	Koophuis
Gary Raymond	...	Kraler
Victor Spinetti	...	Herman Van Daan
Tom Wilkinson	...	Silberbauer
Lisa Jacobs	...	Anne Frank
Isabelle Amyes	...	Elli Vossen (as Isabelle Aymes)
Ian Sears	...	Peter van Daan
Georgia Slowe	...	Margot Frank
Jeffrey Robert	...	Dr. Dussel

Storyline

During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.

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Plot Keywords:

nazi | jewish | hiding place | hiding jews | nazis | 

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Taglines:

A true story of courage in the face of adversity.

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Genres:

Drama | History | War

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Details

Country:

USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

17 April 1988 (USA)

Also Known As:

Anne Frankin viimeiset päivät

Company Credits

Production Co:

Telecom Entertainment Inc., Yorkshire Television (YTV)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Miep Gies, played by Mary Steenburgen, died on January 11, 2010 at the age of 100, the last of the friends of the Frank family who helped hide them, provided them with food and news and who found Anne Frank's diary.

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Quotes

Miep Gies: The swastika is on my passport Miss... not on me.

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Connections

Version of The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

User Reviews

Should be under Fiction

Otto Frank was sued by a New York scriptwriter, Meyer Levin, who claimed that Frank had taken large portions of a script he, Levin, had written and had not paid Levin for his work. The court ordered Frank to pay Levin $50,000. The line laid down by the government and the media is that Anne Frank is gospel, and anyone who suggests otherwise leaves himself open to criminal charges as well as to civil suits. Otto Frank himself made a regular habit of hauling Anne Frank detractors into German courts, which invariably decided in his favor, until recently, that is. When Hamburg pensioner Ernst Roemer, 76, began spreading the accusation that Otto Frank had himself written what he was passing off as his dead daughter's diary, Frank sued him. Roemer appealed twice, until the court asked for the technical services, which carried out a careful analysis of the original manuscript of the diary with microscope and ultraviolet illumination in order to confirm its authenticity, in particular, to determine when it was written. The report of the technical experts was given to the court in April of this year, and it contained a bombshell: large portions of the alleged "diary" were written in ballpoint pen ink, which was not manufactured prior to 1951! The testimony of Hamburg graphologist Minna Bekker in an earlier trial was: "The handwriting of the diary in the three bound volumes , including all notes and additions on the glued-in pages as well as the 338 pages of loose material, including all corrections and insertions is identical . . ." It is now quite clear that Otto finished hoking up the "original" of the diary after he had found a publisher for what, in 1946, was nothing more than some rough notes and an idea in his head which seemed to have prospects for making him a lot of money with little effort. Just after the report of the Federal Criminal Office was given to the court, Otto Frank conveniently died, before he could be asked a number of very interesting questions.