Das Tagebuch Der Anne Frank 1959

1959 American film directed by George Stevens

The Diary of Anne Frank
Flick affiche by Tom Chantrell
Directed by	George Stevens
Written by	Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett
Based on	The Diary of Anne Frank 1955 by Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett The Diary of a Young Daughter 1947 by Anne Frank
Produced by	George Stevens
Starring	Millie Perkins Joseph Schildkraut Richard Beymer Shelley Winters Diane Baker Ed Wynn
Cinematography	William C. Mellor
Edited by	David Bretherton William Mace Robert Swink
Music past	Alfred Newman
Distributed by	Twentieth Century-Play tricks Film Corporation
Release date	March 18, 1959 (1959-03-18)
Running time	179 minutes
Country	U.s.a.
Languages	English language German
Budget	$three.8 million[1]
Box part	$2.3 1000000 (est. U.s.a./ Canada rentals)[2]

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 movie based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play of the same name, which was in turn based on the posthumously published diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family unit during World War II. Information technology was directed past George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is the beginning film version of both the play and the original story, and features 3 members of the original Broadway cast.

All Frank'due south writings to her diary were addressed as "Love Kitty". It was published after the end of the state of war by her male parent, Otto Frank (played in the film by Joseph Schildkraut, also Jewish). All of his family members had been killed by the Nazis. The film was shot on a sound stage duplicate of the mill in Los Angeles, while exteriors were filmed at the actual building in Amsterdam.^[3]

The film was positively received by critics, currently holding a eighty% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes.^[iv] It won iii University Awards in 1960, including Best Supporting Actress for Shelley Winters. Shelley later donated her Oscar to the Anne Frank Museum. In 2006, it was honored as the eighteenth well-nigh inspiring American flick on the list AFI'south 100 Years…100 Cheers.

Plot [edit]

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

Millie Perkins as Anne Frank and Joseph Schildkraut as Otto Frank.

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, accept arranged the hideaway and warn the families that they must maintain strict silence during daylight hours while the workers are at that place. On the starting time day, the minutes drag past in silence. After work, Kraler delivers food and a box for Anne compiled by Otto, which contains her beloved photos of pic stars and a blank diary. In the first pages of the diary, she describes the strangeness of never being able to get outside or breathe fresh air. She states that everybody is good at heart.

As the months pass, Anne's irrepressible energy reasserts itself and she constantly teases Peter, whose merely zipper is to his cat, Moushie. Isolated from the world outside, Otto schools Anne and her sister, Margot (Diane Baker), equally the sounds of sirens and bombers frequently fill up the air. Mrs. Van Daan passes the fourth dimension by recounting addicted memories of her youth and stroking her one remaining possession, the fur coat given to her past her father. The strain of confinement causes the Van Daans to argue and pits the strong-willed Anne confronting her female parent, Edith Frank (Gusti Huber). One day, Kraler brings a radio to the cranium, providing the families with ears onto the world. Soon afterwards, he asks them to take in another person, a Jewish dentist named Albert Dussell (Ed Wynn). When Van Daan complains that the addition will diminish their food supply, Dussell recounts the dire weather outside, in which Jews suddenly disappear and are shipped to concentration camps. When Dussell confirms the disappearance of many of their friends, the families' hopes are dimmed.

One dark, Anne dreams of seeing ane of her friends in a concentration military camp and wakes upwardly screaming. In October 1942, news comes of the Centrolineal landing in Africa but the bombing of Amsterdam intensifies, fraying the refugees' already ragged nerves. During Hanukkah, Margot longingly recalls past celebrations and Anne produces piddling presents for everyone. When Van Daan abruptly announces that Peter must become rid of Moucshi considering he consumes also much nutrient, Anne protests. Their argument is cut short when they hear a prowler intermission in the front door and the room falls silent. Peter and then sends an object crashing to the floor while trying to catch Moushie, and the startled thief grabs a typewriter and flees. A watchman notices the intermission-in and summons 2 police officers, who search the premises, shining their flashlights onto the bookcase that conceals the attic entrance. The families wait in terror until Moushie knocks a plate from the table and mews, reassuring the officers that the noise was caused by a common true cat. After they leave, Otto, hoping to foster faith and backbone, leads everyone in a Hanukkah vocal.

In Jan 1944, Anne, on the threshold of womanhood, begins to attract Peter'south attention. When Miep brings the group a cake, Dussell and Van Daan bicker over the size of their portions and Van Daan asks Miep to sell Petronella'due south fur glaze so that he can buy cigarettes. After Kraler warns that ane of his employees asked for a heighten and implied that something strange is going on in the cranium, Dussell dourly comments that information technology is just a matter of fourth dimension before they are discovered. Anne, distraught, blames the adults for the war which has destroyed all sense of hope and ideals. When she storms out of the room, Peter follows and comforts her. Later, Anne confides her dreams of becoming a writer and Peter voices frustration about his inability to join the war endeavor. In Apr 1944, among talk of liberation, the Franks picket helplessly as more Jews are marched through the streets. Tensions mountain, and when Van Daan tries to steal some breadstuff from the others, Edith denounces him and orders him to leave. Equally Dussell and Mrs. Van Daan quarrel over food, word comes over the radio of the Normandy invasion and Mr. Van Daan breaks into tears of shame. Heartened by the news, everyone apologizes for their harsh words, and Anne dreams of existence back in schoolhouse past the fall.

By July 1944, the invasion has bogged downwards and Kraler is hospitalized with ulcers. Upon hearing that the police take institute the stolen typewriter, Anne writes that her diary provides her with a way to keep living after her death. Subsequently the Van Daans begin to quarrel over again, Peter declares that he cannot tolerate the situation and Anne soothes him by reminding him of the goodness of those who have come to their assistance. Their chat is interrupted by the sirens of an budgeted police truck. As Anne and Peter bravely stand arm in arm, sure of their impending arrest, they passionately kiss. As the High german uniformed police force suspension downward the bookcase entrance to the hideout, Otto declares they no longer take to live in fright, but can become forward in hope.

The film returns to 1945 equally Otto tells Miep and Kraler that on his long journey home after his release from the concentration military camp he learned how Edith, Margot, the Van Daans, and Dussell perished, but always held out hope that possibly Anne had somehow survived. He sadly reveals that only the previous twenty-four hour period in Rotterdam he met a woman who had been in Bergen-Belsen with Anne and confirmed her death. He then glances at Anne'south diary and reads, "In spite of everything, I notwithstanding believe that people are actually expert at heart," and reflects upon her unshakeable optimism.^[5]

Cast [edit]

• Millie Perkins as Anne Frank
• Joseph Schildkraut equally Otto Frank (reprising his stage role)
• Shelley Winters every bit Petronella Van Daan
• Richard Beymer as Peter Van Daan
• Gusti Huber as Edith Frank (reprising her stage role)
• Lou Jacobi equally Hans Van Daan (reprising his stage role)
• Diane Baker as Margot Frank
• Douglas Spencer as Kraler
• Dodie Heath every bit Miep Gies (credited as Dody Heath)
• Ed Wynn every bit Albert Dussell
• Orangey every bit Mouschi

Otto Frank wrote to Audrey Hepburn, asking her if she would play the part of his girl Anne. He told Hepburn that his daughter would have been honoured to have such a famous Hollywood actress play her on movie, and he also noted the striking resemblance that existed between Anne and Hepburn when she was an adolescent. She was initially interested in the role, and her name appears on the back cover of copies of the diary printed and sold to promote the "upcoming pic".

During the casting period, Hepburn ultimately wrote back declining the offer, proverb she felt she was too one-time, and lacked the skills to portray Anne. She said she was greatly honoured to take been given the choice, and noted the similarity between her own war feel and that of the Franks and the others in the annex.^{[half dozen] [7]} Hepburn and Anne were born inside a month of each other, and both spent their adolescences in Nazi-occupied Kingdom of the netherlands. Hepburn was replaced by American newcomer Millie Perkins.

Production [edit]

The film is an accommodation of the successful Broadway play based on Anne Frank'due south diary, which was kickoff published in English in 1952. At the fourth dimension of the film'south product, the book had already sold millions of copies around the world.

According to a 1955 article published on the Daily Variety, Garson Kanin, who had staged the Broadway play, and Milton Sperling from Warner Bros. had intended to acquire the film rights, but ultimately they were sold to Buddy Adler of Twentieth Century Flim-flam. Originally, William Wyler was in talks to direct before George Stevens signed on as producer and managing director.

Principal photography took place in Amsterdam from 5 March to 11 August 1958, with boosted scenes shot in November. George Stevens initially resisted the idea of shooting the film in CinemaScope considering he thought that this format would not convey the claustrophobic effect he wanted to reproduce. When Spyros Skouras, president of Twentieth Century Play a joke on, insisted on CinemaScope, Stevens and cinematographer William C. Mellor decided to reduce the space by limiting the action to the center of the screen. Mellor further developed the look of the picture by using fluorescent tubes, filters and gas^{[ clarification needed ]} rather than traditional studio lighting.

Premiere [edit]

The picture show premiered March 18, 1959, at the Palace Theatre in New York Urban center.^[viii]

Reception [edit]

Critical reception [edit]

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The film was mostly positively received by critics, currently holding an 80% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on twenty reviews.^[ix]

The film holds a 59% on Metacritic, indicating mixed to positive reviews.^[10]

Accolades [edit]

• The American Moving-picture show Establish included the film as No. eighteen in its list of the about inspiring movies, AFI'due south 100 Years... 100 Thanks.
• In 1975, Shelley Winters donated her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress statuette to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam where it is on brandish.

Abode media [edit]

The film was get-go released on DVD on February three, 2004. The special features included some of the post-obit; "The Diary of Anne Frank: Echoes From the Past" featurette, a press conference with director George Stevens, MovieTone news announcing public appearances by Millie Perkins, a screen test, and an audio commentary by Millie Perkins and George Stevens Jr, the director's son.

A fiftieth-ceremony edition of the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on June sixteen, 2009, three months afterwards its bodily release anniversary, in commemoration of what would accept been Anne Frank's 80th altogether.^[14] It included vii major new featurettes: three cast interviews, a backside-the scenes look at the score, two short documentaries about George Stevens' memories from the war and the history of the diary, and a perspective piece on the film's legacy by Thomas Rothman.^[15]

The Blu-ray was released only a month before Tony van Renterghem died on July 19, 2009.^[xvi] Renterghem, a Dutch cinematographer and technical, historical and script adviser who worked with Stevens for many years, consulted on both the play and the film.^[sixteen] While his work was nigh entirely backside the scenes, his knowledge helped in putting together the historical featurettes.^{[ original research? ]}

See also [edit]

• List of American films of 1959
• List of Holocaust films

References [edit]

1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Flim-flam: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-i. p252
2. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, vi January 1960 p 34
3. ^ Carey, Matt (Baronial 10, 2009). "Remembering 'The Diary of Anne Frank'". CNN. Cablevision News Network. Retrieved September 22, 2013.
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5. ^ "The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 28 Jan 2013.
6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-12-17. Retrieved 2013-08-08 . {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. ^ Audrey Hepburn's Personal Connection to Anne Frank
8. ^ Rainho, Manny (March 2015). "This Month in Pic History". Classic Images (477): 28.
9. ^ The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) , retrieved 2020-01-15
10. ^ The Diary of Anne Frank , retrieved 2020-01-15
11. ^ "NY Times: The Diary of Anne Frank". Movies & Idiot box Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2008-12-23 .
12. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Diary of Anne Frank". festival-cannes.com . Retrieved 2009-02-14 .
13. ^ "1st Moscow International Motion-picture show Festival (1959)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-sixteen. Retrieved 2012-10-27 .
14. ^ Lumenick, Lou (2009-06-16). "Blu-ray 'Diary' honors Anne Frank". New York Mail service. p. 38. Retrieved 2009-09-06 .
15. ^ "Diary of Anne Frank (50th Anniversary Edition)". Movies & Goggle box Dept. The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-09-06 . ^{[ expressionless link ]}
16. ^ ^{a b} Barnes, Mike (2009-08-xi). "Obituaries: Tony van Renterghem". The Hollywood Reporter. p. xiii. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2009-09-06 .

External links [edit]

• The Diary of Anne Frank at IMDb
• The Diary of Anne Frank at the TCM Movie Database
• The Diary of Anne Frank at AllMovie
• The Diary of Anne Frank at the American Film Institute Catalog
• The Diary of Anne Frank at Rotten Tomatoes

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