Anne Frank Remembered

Synopsis: Using previously unreleased archival material in addition to contemporary interviews, this academy award-winning documentary tells the story of the Frank family and presents the first fully-rounded portrait of their brash and free-spirited daughter Anne, perhaps the world's most famous victim of the Holocaust.
Director(s): Jon Blair
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 8 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
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PG
Year:
1995
117 min
338 Views


She is perhaps Hitler's|best-known victim.

Her book has sold more|than 25 million copies...

...and has been translated|into at least 55 languages.

She's become a symbol of 10|million souls murdered by the Nazis...

...Jews and non-Jews...

...and, in particular, the one and|a half million innocent children.

She was just 15 when she died.

A miserable and lonely death|in a concentration camp in Germany.

Yet she is remembered|for her faith in humanity.

This is the story of the life|and legacy of Anne Frank.

In Amsterdam, some of the remnants|of a once-thriving Jewish community.

Every person in this congregation,|like Jews throughout Europe...

...has a story of their own...

...of persecution, murder,|fear or betrayal.

The rabbi spent the first|2 years of his life in hiding...

...sheltered by a Christian family.

But one girl reaches|beyond all those memories.

Hers is not just a Holocaust story,|for the voice of Anne Frank...

...stands as a warning to those|who discriminate on the basis...

...of color, culture or creed.

Her message is as fresh today|as it was 50 years ago.

The notorious Nazi propaganda film...

...The Eternal Jew.

Distorted images portraying|an Aryan nightmare...

...of the Jewish threat|to European civilization.

And this, the family Frank:

Prosperous, cultivated,|sophisticated...

...and integrated.

In fact, they were a German family.|German to the core.

The antithesis of ghetto Jews.

Anne's father, Otto,|was an officer in the German army...

...in the first World War.

The family had lived in and around|Frankfurt for generations.

But Otto had traveled the world, even|working in Macy's store in New York...

...where a college friend,|Nathan Straus, was the owner's son.

In 1925, the 36-year-old Otto|married Edith Hollander...

...a 25-year-old Jewish girl|from Aachen, Germany...

...near the Dutch border.

They honeymooned in Italy.

Their first daughter, Margot,|followed 9 months later...

...and their second, Annelies,|better known as Anne, in June 1929.

It was a good life in Frankfurt|in those early years.

One could almost forget the long|shadow of National Socialism.

But beneath the idyllic surface...

...far removed from the children's world,|turmoil.

DANGER JEWS:

Their landlord turned out to be|a Nazi party member.

And in March 1931, they moved.

The bank owned by the family|also had serious problems...

...resulting in its complete|collapse in 1933...

...caused by Otto's brother|being the victim of a fraud...

...and the effects of the Depression,|particularly acute in Germany.

And, of course, the threat|of the gathering storm.

On the streets...

...at the rallies...

ONE RACE ONE NATlON

...and finally in January 1933...

...the ballot box.

ONE LEADER:

For it is often forgotten that Hitler|gained power in a democratic election.

For the Franks,|the German dream was over.

Some of the family|had moved to Switzerland.

Otto chose to try his luck in Holland...

...where he had|prior business connections.

In autumn 1933, the family settled|here in Merwedeplein...

...a modern housing development|in South Amsterdam.

They established a settled and full|existence amongst German refugees...

...and Dutch neighbors.

We moved into the same neighborhood|as the Frank family.

Many other refugees moved there.

And so there was a little bit|of a German-Jewish enclave...

...by no means a ghetto,|but just a little enclave.

Quite often parents would speak|German in the street...

...which annoyed us|children terribly, of course.

Hanneli Goslar

My father was a deputy minister|in the interior.

And he was the chief|of the press in Germany.

He had really a very high position.

And he immediately fled...

...when the whole|government stepped down.

And, okay, we went|to England before...

...but he didn't find a job where|he didn't have to work Shabbat.

And so we stopped here|in Merwedeplein.

Life for Jewish refugees...

...as I experienced it as a young|child, in a way had its charms.

What I particularly enjoyed was that|we adapted faster than our parents.

Our parents had to|turn to us and ask us...

...what's done in this country.

And I found this|tremendously democratizing.

I really enjoyed that part very much.

The Franks formed an active social life|amongst the other refugee families.

For visitors, Anne's behavior|made the Sunday gatherings...

...something of an ordeal.

She was just what|you could call naughty.

She had to sit on a table where|everything was very beautiful...

...in a beautiful dress and have|her chocolate not spoil it.

Isa Baschwitz

She just didn't want to.

She got up and she made fuss,|and she...

...drew attention.

And then she grew angry.

And that angriness...

...that was the problem|between the parents.

Mother Frank said, "You sit down."

And Father Frank said:

"Leave the child alone.|She's so small and she's so little."

So she was allowed to do|the things she wanted.

And that happened every time.

Every time that girl was naughty...

...was impertinent,|later on, really impertinent.

I remember very strongly|that Mr. Frank...

...was seen as an ideal daddy,|that he was the daddy...

...because he was so much involved|in his girls' education.

He fixed his wife breakfast on Sunday|morning and brought it to her bedside...

...which was unheard of in our circles.|So that news made the round:

"Mr. Frank does this for his wife!|How great."

Otto Frank|interviewed in 1979

We left Germany in 1933...

...because I didn't want to educate|my children with blinkers.

They were not allowed to see|Christian friends anymore.

In Holland, it was different.

Upon her arrival in Amsterdam...

...the 4-year-old Anne was sent|to the Montessori school...

...where Lies Goslar|became her best friend.

Years later, in her diary,|Anne wrote this of Lies:

"Hanneli Goslar, or Lies, as she's|called at school, is a bit strange.

She's usually shy...

...outspoken at home but reserved|around other people.

She blabs whatever you tell her|to her mother.

But she says what she thinks.

And lately, I've come|to appreciate her a great deal. "

Anne and Lies' friendship had begun|on their very first day at school.

Exactly in opposite of the door...

...I saw the back of Anne, and|she was ringing these little bells.

And she turned around, and she saw me,|I saw her, and hop...

...we run each into|the arms of another.

I think my mother went away.|I didn't look at her anymore.

And this was the first day.

Since then we were together|really till the end.

Of the two sisters, I was really more|impressed with Margot than with Anne...

...for rather obvious reasons.

Margot was a year and a half older|than I am, so she was a model.

She was ladylike.|She was always composed.

She always did her homework.|She was just the ideal young lady.

I was a tomboy, so I always thought|it would be great to be like Margot.

Anne was very lively, and I didn't|need any model for that.

I was lively myself.

Besides, she was younger. You never|model yourself after a younger child.

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Jon Blair

Jon Blair, CBE is a South African-born writer, film producer and director of documentary films, drama and comedy who has lived in England and the United States ever since he was drafted into the South African army in the late 1960s. He is the only director of documentaries working in the United Kingdom who has won all three of the premier awards in his field: an Oscar, an Emmy (twice) and a British Academy Award. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2015 Birthday Honours for services to film. more…

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