Today’s Classic Tuesdays film, Anne Frank: The Whole Story will be aired from 6 pm at Castellani House, Vlissengen Road to mark the 65th anniversary of the first publication of Anne Frank’s diaries.
The 2001 film, directed by Robert Dornhelm and starring Ben Kingsley and Hannah Taylor, the national gallery said in a press release, tells the story of the happy life of a German born Jewish family living in Amsterdam before the threat of Nazism.
The film also goes on to tell about the family’s secret life in the attic of Anne father’s office building where they are helped by kind friends before their hiding place is betrayed and they are captured by the Germans, the release added.
The family is then sent to deportation camp and from there to concentration camps where they are separated females from males. But Anne, her mother and her sister succeed in staying together.
The spirit of survival and hope through suffering and death represented by Anne, her family and millions of the camps have become resonantly symbolized by her diary, cast aside by the soldiers at her capture, but later saved and given to her father after the war when he returned to Amsterdam seeking news of his family.
The film has received over 20 nominations including 3 Golden Globe for best actor, best actress and best miniseries/movie.
It also won 6 awards including Emmys for best art direction, best actor an actress, a Writer’s Guild of America award, a Peabody award for Outstanding Achievement in Broad-casting and a Screen Actor’s award.
The film’s running time is 3 hours, but there will be a short intermission during which refreshments will be served.
