The Diary of Anne Frank
Director: George Stevens
Genre: Black-and-white, Biographical film, War film, Film adaptation, Drama
Year: 1959
Country: Netherlands, United States of America
Language: English Language, German Language
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Diane Baker, Lou Jacobi, Richard Beymer, Ed Wynn, Lesley Sharp, Kate Ashfield, Geoff Breton, Ellie Kendrick, Nicholas Farrell, Mariah Gale, Ron Cook, Tim Dantay, Douglas Spencer, Gusti Huber, Delmar Erickson, William Kirschner, Gretchen Goertz, Robert Boon, Frank Tweddell, Edmund Purdom, Charles Wagenheim, Dodie Heath, Hendrik Hoeve van
The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name, which was based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was directed by George Stevens, with a screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett. It won three Academy Awards. It is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast.
The movie was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in a hiding place with her family during World War II. All her writings to her diary were addressed as 'Dear Kitty'. The diary was published after the end of the war by her father Otto Frank (played by Joseph Schildkraut, also a Jew). By this time all his other family members were killed by the Nazis.
As a truckload of war survivors stops in front of an Amsterdam factory at the end of World War II, Otto Frank gets out and walks inside. After climbing the stairs to a deserted garret, Otto finds a girl's discarded glove and sobs, then is joined and comforted by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler, factory workers who shielded him from the Nazis. After stating that he is now all alone, Otto begins to search for the diary written by
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