The Diary of Anne Frank -- TV Review
The new version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" on PBS's "Masterpiece Classic," playing Sunday, April 11, at 9pm, is described as "more from Anne's observations about herself and those around her than on her desperate circumstances.See story, in the Hollywood Reporter.
"Her diary, though it includes incidents of fear and alarm, has less to do with the murderous brutality of the Nazi invaders outside the Amsterdam annex where she and her family hid and everything to do with the precocious and sometimes profound insights of an adolescent girl on the cusp of womanhood."
In 1942, just as Anne turned 13, the Germans began to round Jews up and deport them to labor and death camps. This is partly a results of the Nazi's wanting to speed up their handiwork now that America had entered the war following Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war against it.
Otto Frank and his family and friends survived for two years before their never-identified traitor turned them in to the Dutch police, all of whom would soon find themselves on the wrong side of the law once the Allies liberated these oppressed people.
Otto Frank and his family and friends survived for two years before their never-identified traitor turned them in to the Dutch police, all of whom would soon find themselves on the wrong side of the law once the Allies liberated these oppressed people.
In this writer's opinion, it will be difficult for this production to top the ABC version completed a handful of years ago with Ben Kinglsey starring as Otto. For some reason, the official Anne Frank association would not cooperate or lend their imprimatur to that made-for-TV film.
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