Birbirlerinden farklı ama ortak olarak hayattan beklentileri olmayan karakterle dolu koca bir sınıf öğrencinin arasında idealist duygularla öğretmenlik yapmaya yeni başlayan Erin'in işi, sandığından da zordur. Farklı ırk ve toplum katmanlarından gelen öğrenciler için okul, sadece yaşları gereği orada bulunmaya katlanmaları gereken bir yerdir.Erin, kendince yöntemlerle onlara yakınlaşmaya çalışsa da bu niyeti daha da büyük tepkilere yol açar. Çünkü öğrenciler, hayatta yüzleştikleri ırksal ve toplumsal acı gerçekleri farkına vararak öğretmenlerinin saf idealizmi bırakmasını isterler. Zaman içinde onlarla iletişim kurmayı başaran Erin, herbiri birbirinden farklı hikayesi olan bu gençleri, kendi hikayelerini yazmaları ve bunu da birbirleri ile paylaşmaları konusunda cesaretlendirir. Basit bir günlük işlevi görmenin ötesine geçen bu yazılar, öğrencilerin hayata tutunmalarını sağlayan bir araca dönüşecektir.
Anne Frank ve Hannah Goslar arasındaki, Nazi işgali altındaki Amsterdam'dan bir toplama kampındaki üzücü yeniden birleşmelerine kadar gerçek hayattaki dostluğa dayanmaktadır.
Anna Frank’ın günlüğünü adadığı hayali arkadaşı Kitty’nin yolculuğuna odaklanıyor. Genç bir kız olan Kitty, bir sabah Anne Frank’ın Amsterdam’daki evinde uyanır. Bugünün Avrupa’sında Frank’ın hala hayatta olduğuna inanan Kitty, onu bulmak için bir yolculuğa çıkar.
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
The name Anne Frank stands for courage and confidence in hopeless times. But also for the cheeky and unsparing view of an adolescent on her family and her environment. Millions of people around the world know her diary, she wrote it while hiding from the Nazis. With this docu-drama, the first major German film adaptation of the life story of the Frankfurt girl is now available. The film follows Anne's fate from a happy childhood to hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam to her death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. It focuses on the relationship between father and daughter. Otto Frank was the only one who survived the betrayal of the Secret Annex residents. The most secret thoughts and longings
One single Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered just as she did but whose faces have remained in the shadows-Primo Levi. The Oscar®-winning Helen Mirren will introduce audiences to Anne Frank's story through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret refuge in Amsterdam, reconstructed in every detail by set designers from the Piccolo Theatre in Milan. Anne Frank this year would have been 90 years old. Anne's story is intertwined with that of five Holocaust survivors, teenage girls just like her, with the same ideals, the same desire to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss and sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci. Their testimonies alternate with those of their children and grandchildren.
Dutch presenter Astrid Joosten travels the world to find out why Anne Frank's written words in her diary still inspires hope and regardless of own circumstances, works for unity and peace.
During the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, Otto Frank decides to hide his family, who are Jewish, after his daughter Margot is called to appear for transport to a Nazi labour camp. Miep Gies, Otto Frank's office assistant hides them in the attic above the office. The film tells the true story of Gies' struggle to keep the family hidden and safe, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down. Based upon Gies' memoirs and Anne Frank's famous diary.
Director David de Jongh represents the life Otto Frank in his documentary Otto Frank, the father of Anne. The film deals with various facets of Otto Frank’s life: his youth in Germany, including his military service during the First World War, his marriage to Edith Holländer and the birth of their daughters Margot and Anne, their flight to the Netherlands, the time in hiding and the deportation to Auschwitz, his life after the Second World War and his dedication to the diary and the ideals of his daughter Anne, and his second marriage to Fritzi Geiringer. The documentary features many photos and film images, as well as interviews, including new ones, with people who knew Otto Frank. His stepdaughter Eva Schloss is one of the interviewees. The film is produced by Pieter van Huystee Film.
Scenes from a production of The Diary of Anne Frank are combined with footage of young Palestinians talking candidly about war, first love and topics that Frank wrote about as a teenager.