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A Pulitzer Prize-winning play is transferred to film in this gripping account of World War II Jewish refugees hiding in Occupied Amsterdam.Product Identifiers
EAN5039036016940
eBay Product ID (ePID)30589964
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleThe Diary of Anne Frank
ActorMillie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Gusti Huber, Richard Beymer, Joseph Schildkraut, Ed Wynn, Lou Jacobi
DirectorGeorge Stevens
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesBlack & White
Run Time144 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificateU
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Director of PhotographyWilliam C. Mellor
Additional InformationGeorge Stevens' life-altering experience of witnessing the death camps after WWII was doubtless responsible for his desire to adapt the famed diary of the teenaged Jewish girl, played by Millie Perkins. With the feared 'Green Police' or Dutch Gestapo combing Amsterdam in search of Jews, Anne, her parents, Otto (Joseph Schildkraut) and Edith (Anna Huber) another Jewish family, the Van Daans, and a dentist Albert Dussell (Ed Wynn) take refuge for two years in a small attic provided by Gentile shop owners Kraler (Douglas Spencer) and Miep (Dody Heath). Despite their precarious situation, and the sense of claustrophobia created by having to live together in such crowded conditions, covering the windows during the day, and keeping as quiet as possible at all times, the families carry on as best they can. For Anne, her platonic romance with Peter Van Daan (Richard Beymer), the attractive son of often voluble parents, makes the experience more bearable than it is for the adults, whose sense of foreboding is palpable. By surrounding the inexperienced Perkins with a talented cast of veteran performers, which also includes Shelley Winters and Lou Jacobi, Stevens achieves a moving portrait of Frank's innocent precocity, with her ultimate fate the tragic subtext of this intensely compelling film. Received the 1959 Academy Awards for Cinematography, Art Direction and Shelly Winters' supporting performance.
Movie/TV TitleThe Diary Of Anne Frank
ComposerAlfred Newman
AwardsBest Actress In A Supporting Role 1960 - Shelley Winters