The Diary of Anne Frank movie storyline. As a result of the Nazi attack in 1944, Jews in Amsterdam were gathered and sent to camps and destroyed. A group of Jews hide in the attic of a house and never go out for two years. While struggling with hunger in this two-year mandatory chamber, there is inevitably controversy. Anna Frank records what happened in this room. Towards the end of the war, the Allies landed in Normandy, and the fate of the people in the room is uncertain.
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 is the first film version of both the play and the original story, and features three members of the original Broadway cast.
The film was based on the personal diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who lived in hiding with her family during World War II. All her writings to her diary were addressed as “Dear Kitty”. It was published after the end of the war by her father, 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 factory in Los Angeles, while exteriors were filmed at the actual building in Amsterdam.
The film won three Academy 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 most inspiring American film on the list AFI’s 100 Years…100 Cheers.
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Directed by: George Stevens
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Richard Beymer, Shelley Winters, Diane Baker, Ed Wynn, William Kirschner, Edmund Purdom, Gretchen Goertz, John Corrydon
Screenplay by: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: William C. Mellor
Film Editing by: David Bretherton, William Mace, Robert Swink
Costume Design by: Charles Le Maire, Mary Wills
Set Decoration by: Stuart A. Reiss, Walter M. Scott
Art Direction by: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler
Music by: Alfred Newman
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: March 18, 1959
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