Even more than 70 years after the death of Anne Frank in Bergen-Belsen moved their fate the people. Only now told for the first time a German film from the short life of the famous diary writer.
It does one so sorry Anne Frank. A stubborn 13-year-old in the middle of puberty, who wants to snog boys and running around outdoors and undisturbed inspect on the sofa with a hand mirror to own abdomen, locked with seven others on a few dozen square meters. but annoying sometimes, this Anne, like any teenager sucks, who does not find the space for its hormonal ups and downs. One suffers with her and also with their counterparts when they are desperate on the kitchen floor kneeling mother (terrific: Martina Gedeck). Nudges when they insulted the father (Ulrich Noethen) unrestrained or squatting with wuttränenden eyes and quivering chin on table
Now Anne is not just any teenager, but one of the most famous in the world. Her diary is schoolwork, your irrepressible free spirit has inspired millions, there are Hollywood movies, plays and radio plays on their fate. But off it Anne Frank was a young like any other, and it is aimed director Hans Steinbichler in his remake focus. He wants to make the icon again approachable, they dense move the audiences of today to the heart, particularly the young. One could choose a worse approach, Anne Frank to meet.
The film begins in the summer of 1942 with a bourgeois idyll that is inflated almost magical. As you can see the white-clad Frank family picnic on sunny meadows, all smiling, even though you already have to wear the Jewish star and Anne (Lea van Acken) while swimming at the beach is mobbed by Hitler Youth. On the day when the Nazis want to pick up her sister Margot (Stella Kunkat) and the family moves into prepared hiding place, it is raining, the sky is gray. Anne, the creature as much light and air needs to thrive, disappears over the threshold into the darkness.
They are just girls
From there consists Annes world only candlelight and anxiety. does not open the window, the toilet used only at night, whispering. And let never, never drop something. It does not take a long time to wrestle with the Franks to air in these crowded conditions, which is further reinforced. By friction with the other residents Short moments of relief bring scenes where Anne and Margot girls are just arguing about the first rule and the first love and stuff the bra with socks. There are attempts to remain in inhuman conditions man, defiant lunges against the daily madness.
Two years awaiting the refugees behind the secret door from friends. Shortly before the parents have Anne’s diary given. They renamed it Kitty and trusted him at all, as a friend. The 16-year-old Lea van Acken plays the great, wise and research and at the same time vulnerable. Again and again she speaks passages from the diary directly into the camera as if Kitty viewers. Sometimes urgent as to ask for a to do something. Because you can not, these are the most painful scenes of the movie.
controversy surrounding the closing scenes
The first German film about Anne Frank was among a number difficulties. There were creative disagreements between Steinbichler, the otherwise upscale Bavarian home cinema as “Winterreise” makes, Writer Fred Breinersdorfer ( “Elser”) and the Basel Anne Frank Fund, which owns the rights to the material. Still in postproduction Steinbichler has historically cut allegedly inaccurate film in the form. Controversy there was about the authorization of some dramatic final scenes in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, so sometimes long after the end of Anne Frank’s records.
Now add the end, cut or not, in shocking way to a already deeply shocking film. After the Franks are discovered by the Gestapo and deported to Auschwitz, Anne, Margot and her mother have to undress, to them stands the numbers in the skin and shaved their heads. During the humiliating procedure Anne looks again frontal into the camera, but speak, unbearable, not another word. Then, the arm of a female guard drags it sideways out of the picture. . Just like that
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