![]() This is from IMDB: "In addition to filming the Normandy landings, his unit shot the liberation of Paris and the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Dachau, and his unit's footage was used both as evidence in the Nuremberg trials and in the de-Nazification program after the war. The following explains his raison d'etre for making Diary. Stevens had said his World War II experiences changed him, and he never made another comedy or musical after 1943's The More the Merrier.Īfter World War II began, Stevens joined the Army Signal Corps and was in charge of a combat motion picture unit for two years. Van Daan) re-created their stage roles for the film. It won the Tony award for best play and Hackett and Goodrich won the Pulitzer Prize for drama during the play's run of 717 performances on Broadway. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich wrote the film and play based on Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Producer/Director George Stevens spent several years getting the production in gear. Speaking of Newman's score, he wrote a lovely waltz for incidental music during the intermission, which reminds us of a Europe long gone - before Hitler came to power. He starts reading and thus begins the story of the hiding place. The two people who hid the Franks and the others show him where the diary was kept. He is heartbroken because he can't find the diary that Anne kept while they were hiding in the attic. ![]() ![]() He breaks down after finding a glove that belonged to Anne. Otto Frank (Joseph Schildkraut) returns to the house - after Germany has surrendered to the Allied forces - where his and another family went into hiding in July 1942. The credits roll with Alfred Newman's beautifully uplifting score, which channels young Anne's positive attitude and optimism about life. But the acting, dialogue, music and cinematography are so good, I get lost in the film. I haven't forgotten.Īs we toured the site the idea that one man could cause so much death and destruction was made evident by the gas chambers and ovens where the Final Solution was put into service.Īnd watching Diary brings all that horror back - as I know how the story ends. Even though he never said it, my father wanted me and my siblings to know what had happened there and that we should never forget it. I still get shivers when I recall that visit. My father took us to visit what was left of the infamous concentration camp where thousands were killed or died from starvation and disease. Perhaps those feelings were reinforced by the fact that we lived some 31 miles from Dachau, one of several concentration camps where Jews and others deemed by Adolf Hitler unfit to live were incarcerated and killed. I saw this film in Augsburg, Germany, in 1959 and, as a 6-year-old, learned the enormity and importance of the Holocaust story. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the release of The Diary of Anne Frank, a film that tells the true story of a young Jewish girl, her family and four others hiding in the attic of an Amsterdam spice factory during WWII. ![]()
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