Anne Frank Remembered

1995 British documentary film

Anne Frank Remembered

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Written by| Jon Blair
Directed by| Jon Blair
Starring| Glenn Close
Narrated by| Kenneth Branagh
Music by| Carl Davis
Country of origin| United Kingdom
Original language| English
Production
Producer| Jon Blair
Cinematography| Barry Ackroyd
Editor| Karen Steininger
Running time| 117 minutes
Production company| Jon Blair Film Company
Original release
Release| 6 May 1995 (1995-05-06) (Television)
23 February 1996 (1996-02-23) (Theatres)

Anne Frank Remembered is a 1995 British documentary film produced and directed by Jon Blair about the life and posthumously published diary of the German-Jewish diarist Anne Frank, who spent most of her life in the Netherlands. The film was produced in association with the Anne Frank House, Disney Channel, and the BBC, and features narration by Kenneth Branagh and extracts from Frank's diary read by Glenn Close. It originally aired on television in April 1995 before it was screened theatrically by Sony Pictures Classics in February 1996.

Miep Gies, the woman who had helped shelter the family, and who had saved the diary after the group was betrayed, collaborated with Blair and is interviewed about her memories of hiding the Frank family. Blair also uses interviews with Hannah Pick-Goslar ("Hanneli") and Jaqueline van Maarsen, two of Anne Frank's friends, and notably uses archive interviews of Otto Frank to retell Anne's story.

The film also records the first meeting between Miep Gies and Werner Peter Pfeffer, the son of Fritz Pfeffer ("Albert Dussel" in the Diary), who died two months after filming. In a moving scene, filmed as it happened, a tearful Pfeffer offers "Vielen Dank" ("many thanks") to Gies for her efforts to save his father.

Blair filmed in the real locations of Frank's life, including the neighbourhood Anne grew up in, the "Achterhuis" of Prinsengracht 263 (where she and her family lived in hiding) in Amsterdam, and the Westerbork and Auschwitz Concentration Camps. Blair commented that Auschwitz had been filmed a number of times, for many reasons; however, he wanted to suggest something of the "ghosts" of the people who had passed through there, and so he determined that the only way to do this would be to film at night. He was also able to obtain a train similar to those used during World War II to recreate the scenes of people being transported to Auschwitz.

As the film was made in association with Anne Frank House, it was able to include the only known film footage taken of Anne Frank. The short film was made in 1941 of a wedding in the Amsterdam suburb where the Frank family lived. The camera cuts for just seven seconds to a balcony, where Anne Frank stands watching the bride and groom on the footpath below.

The film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1996.[1] The award was jointly collected by Jon Blair and Miep Gies, who received a standing ovation during the award ceremony.[2]

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 97% based on 29 reviews, and an average rating of 8/10.[3]

## See also

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* The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)
* The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 TV film)
* Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 mini series)
* List of Holocaust films

## References

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1. ^ "NY Times: Anne Frank Remembered". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 1 March 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2008.
2. ^ ""Anne Frank Remembered" winning Best Documentary Feature Oscar". YouTube. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
3. ^ "Anne Frank Remembered (1995)". www.rottentomatoes.com.

## External links

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* Official website
* Anne Frank Remembered at Sony Pictures Classics
* Anne Frank Remembered at BBC
* Anne Frank Remembered at IMDb
* Anne Frank Remembered at AllMovie
* Anne Frank Remembered at the TCM Movie Database
* Sony classics interview with Jon Blair about the making of Anne Frank Remembered
* Anne Frank House link to film image of Anne Frank (requires QuickTime Player)
* Anne Frank Remembered at Box Office Mojo

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Cultural depictions of Anne Frank

Film|

* The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)
* Anne no Nikki (1995 anime film)
* Freedom Writers (2007 film)
* Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016 film)
* Love All You Have Left (2017 film)
* My Best Friend Anne Frank (2021 film)
* Where Is Anne Frank (2021 film)

Television|

* The Diary of Anne Frank (1967 TV film)
* The Diary of Anne Frank (1980 film)
* The Diary of Anne Frank (1987 BBC TV serial)
* The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 TV film)
* Laatste Zeven Maanden van Anne Frank (1988 TV documentary)
* Anne Frank Remembered (1995 TV documentary)
* Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001 ABC TV mini-series)
* The Short Life of Anne Frank
* Mi Ricordo Anna Frank
* The Diary of Anne Frank (2009 BBC TV serial)
* A Small Light (2023 mini-series)

Radio|

* The Diary of Anne Frank (1952 radio play)

Literary|

* The Diary of a Young Girl
* Anne Frank and Me
* My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank
* Anne Frank: The Biography
* Tales from the Secret Annex
* Searching for Anne Frank
* Annelies
* The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank

Theatre|

* The Diary of Anne Frank (play)
* The Diary of Anne Frank (opera)
* And Then They Came for Me (play)

Music|

* Tehillim for Anne
* In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
* The Beauty That Still Remains
* Annelies

Awards for Anne Frank Remembered

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

1942–1975|

* The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942)
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* Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
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2001–present|

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Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Documentary Film

1980–2000|

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* Shoah (1985)
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* The Thin Blue Line (1988)
* Let's Get Lost (1989)
* No Award (1990)
* Paris Is Burning (1991)
* No Award (1992)
* Visions of Light (1993)
* Hoop Dreams (1994)
* Crumb (1995)
* Anne Frank Remembered (1996)
* Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
* The Big One (1998)
* Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1999)
* The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000)

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* Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
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* Murderball (2005)
* Deliver Us from Evil / Shut Up & Sing (2006)
* Crazy Love (2007)
* Man on Wire (2008)
* The Cove (2009)
* Marwencol (2010)
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* Amy (2015)
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International Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary

1960s|

* Big Deal at Gothenburg (1967)
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* The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy (1969)

1970s|

* No Awards (1970–1978)
* Secret Hospital (1979)

1980s|

* Fighting Back (1980)
* Charter pour l'enfer (1981)
* Is There One Who Understands Me?: The World of James Joyce (1982)
* The Miracle of Life (1983)
* Heart of the Dragon (1984)
* 28 Up (1985)
* Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (1986)
* The Sword of Islam (1987)
* The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank (1988)
* Four Hours in My Lai (1989)

1990s|

* J'ai Douze Ans et Je Fais la Guerre (1990)
* Cambodia: The Betrayal (1991)
* To Sell a War (1992)
* Disappearing World: We Are All Neighbours / Monika and Jonas – the Face of the Informer State (1993)
* Life in the Freezer: The Big Freeze (1994)
* Anne Frank Remembered / Contre L'Oubli (1995)
* The Pelican of Ramzan the Red / People's Century / The Saga of Life: The Unknown World (1996)
* Gerrie & Louise (1997)
* Exile in Sarajevo (1998)
* 14 Up Born in the USSR / Just Like Anyone Else (1999)

2000s|

* Kapo (2000)
* Welcome to North Korea (2001)
* The Power of Good: Nicholas Winton (2002)
* Das Leben geht weiter (2003)
* The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off (2004)
* Das Drama von Dresden (2005)
* Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II (2006)
* Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive (2007)
* The Beckoning Silence (2008)
* The Ascent of Money (2009)

2010s|

* Mom and the Red Bean Cake (2010)
* Life with Murder (2011)
* Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die (2012)
* 5 Broken Cameras (2013)
* No Burqas Behind Bars (2014)
* Miners Shot Down (2015)
* Krieg der Lügen (2016)
* Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2017)
* Goodbye Aleppo (2018)
* Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World (2019)

2020s|

* For Sama (2020)
* Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice (2021)
* Iraq's Lost Generation (2022)
* Mariupol: The People’s Story (2023)

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