During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 9 wins & 14 nominations total
Dodie Heath
- Miep Gies
- (as Dody Heath)
Arthur Berkeley
- Dutch Workman
- (uncredited)
Robert Boon
- SS Man
- (uncredited)
John Corrydon
- Dutch Workman
- (uncredited)
Del Erickson
- SS Man
- (uncredited)
Gretchen Goertz
- Sanne Devries
- (uncredited)
William Kirschner
- Workman in Shop
- (uncredited)
Edmund Purdom
- British Radio Announcer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAudrey Hepburn was first offered the role of Anne Frank, and Otto Frank was among those who nominated her. She refused it for three reasons. Firstly, she had decided to accept the role in Green Mansions (1959). Secondly, she had lived in occupied The Netherlands during the war and had seen the Nazis carry out street executions and watched as they herded Jews onto boxcars to carry them to concentration camps. She knew that making the film would bring back memories that were far too painful for her. However, thirdly, she was 30 and felt that she was too old to play a teenage character convincingly on screen.
- GoofsAnne Frank was given the diary for her thirteenth birthday, a few days before they all went into hiding and not after going into hiding as depicted in the film.
- Quotes
Anne Frank: I know it's terrible trying to have any faith when people are doing such horrible... But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not hundreds of years, but someday. - I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.
- Crazy creditsAt the end, neither a "The End" credit nor a cast list appears, only the title of the film once more ("The Diary of Anne Frank").
- Alternate versionsOriginally released at 170 minutes, then later cut and available only in 156-minutes version. Complete edition has been recently restored on video.
- ConnectionsFeatured in George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984)
- SoundtracksBerg op zoom
(uncredited)
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From 1942 to 1944, in a Nazi occupied Amsterdam, the thirteen years old German Jewish girl Anne Frank (Millie Perkins) lives hiding in an attic of a condiment factory with her sister, her parents, three members of another family and an old dentist. Along more than two years, she wrote in her diary, her feelings, her fears and relationship with the other dwellers.
When I was about the same age of Anne Frank, I read her book for the first time and I recall how sad I became. Then I read it at least two times more, and in the bottom of my heart, I was maybe expecting a happy ending and that this teenager and the other persons were saved after their tough struggle for survival. In the 90's, I visited her Museum and again I became very sad. Her story is certainly the saddest and most touching journal ever written and published, and shows how cruel the human being can be. This movie has been recently released on DVD in Brazil with 171 minutes running time, and I really liked it. The cinematography is very beautiful, and the tense and claustrophobic story highlights some of the most important parts of the book with minor modifications to keep the movie tense and in an adequate pace. The cast is excellent, and although having about twenty-one years old at that time, the mignon Millie Perkins performs a good Anne Frank. The person who betrayed Anne Frank and the other Jews has never been discovered. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Diário de Anne Frank" ("The Diary of Anne Frank")
When I was about the same age of Anne Frank, I read her book for the first time and I recall how sad I became. Then I read it at least two times more, and in the bottom of my heart, I was maybe expecting a happy ending and that this teenager and the other persons were saved after their tough struggle for survival. In the 90's, I visited her Museum and again I became very sad. Her story is certainly the saddest and most touching journal ever written and published, and shows how cruel the human being can be. This movie has been recently released on DVD in Brazil with 171 minutes running time, and I really liked it. The cinematography is very beautiful, and the tense and claustrophobic story highlights some of the most important parts of the book with minor modifications to keep the movie tense and in an adequate pace. The cast is excellent, and although having about twenty-one years old at that time, the mignon Millie Perkins performs a good Anne Frank. The person who betrayed Anne Frank and the other Jews has never been discovered. My vote is nine.
Title (Brazil): "O Diário de Anne Frank" ("The Diary of Anne Frank")
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- May 14, 2006
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- Budget
- $3,800,000 (estimated)
- Runtime3 hours
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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