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Anne Frank Remembered is a 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the first year of the International Decade of the Worlds Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www.unesco.org/culture/indigenous/ Events January January 1 Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union Fred West, accused... 1995 Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. The French used the term to refer to any non-fiction film, including travelogues and instructional videos. The earliest moving pictures were by definition documentary. They were single shots, moments captured... documentary film, made by Jon Blair, about the life of the A diary is a book for writing discrete entries arranged by date. It can be used for recording in advance of appointments and other planned activities, and/or for reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Such logs play a role in many... diarist Cover of the diarys Definitive Edition, 1995. The photograph used is cropped from a school portrait of Anne Frank taken at the Montessori School in 1941. Annelies Marie Anne Frank ( June 12, 1929 – February/March 1945) was a German Jewish girl who wrote a diary while in hiding... Anne Frank.


The documentary was made in association with Anne Frank House, Alternate meanings: Disney (disambiguation) The Walt Disney Company (also known as Disney Enterprises, Inc., or simply Disney) (NYSE: DIS) is one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. Founded in 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy Oliver Disney as an animation studio, it is today... Walt Disney Pictures and the This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. See links below for a list of other BBC articles available on Wikipedia. For other meanings of BBC, see BBC (disambiguation). The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was established by a Royal Charter in 1927... British Broadcasting Corporation, and was distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is the television and film production unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony. Corporate Structure Headquartered in Culver City, California, SPE is comprised of various studios and entertainment brands including Columbia Pictures and GSN. List of holdings Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE): Reported group sales in 2003... Sony Pictures. It runs for 122 minutes.


Blair has explained that he read Frank's diary as a child, and had a very clear image of what she was like. He had seen dramatisations and documentaries in which children's voices were used to read extracts from the diary, and he believed that this robbed the viewer of their own impression of Anne Frank. For this reason he determined that the diary should be read by an adult, and selected Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American film and stage actress. She was born into a society family in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended the College of William and Mary, becoming a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Her paternal grandfather, Edward Bennett Close, a stockbroker, was first... Glenn Close as the voice of Anne Frank. The film was In fiction, a narrator is a voice or character who tells the story. The narrator generally can be divided into several types. First person I walked into the room and I saw a man sitting in a chair. (The narrator is a character in the story, usually the protagonist.) Second... narrated by Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. Biography He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but when he was nine his family moved to England. Branagh received a honorary doctorate in Literature from Queens University, Belfast in 1990. Branagh has worked... Kenneth Branagh.


Hermine Miep Santrouschitz-Gies (born 15 February 1909) was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II and preserved Annes diary to be published later. Miep Gies was evactuated to Leiden in Holland from her city of birth... 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 appeared on film. Blair filmed in the real locations of Frank's life, including the "Achterhuis" (where Anne and her family lived in hiding) in Municipality of Amsterdam Alternate meanings: See Amsterdam Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands. Founded in the late 12th century as a small fishing village on the banks of the Amstel, it is now the largest city in the country and its financial and cultural center. As of 2005, the... Amsterdam, and the This article is about the concentration camp. For the village of Westerbork, see Midden-Drenthe. Camp Westerbork was a World War II concentration camp in the province of Drenthe, the Netherlands. In 1939 the Dutch government erected a refugee camp in Hooghalen, ten kilometers north of Westerbork. In Kamp Westerbork... Westerbork and Entrance to Auschwitz II (Birkenau), the main extermination camp, in 2002 Entrance to Auschwitz in 1941. — The slogan Arbeit macht frei over the gate translates as Work (shall) make (you) free (or work liberates) View of Auschwitz in the winter (2002) Auschwitz is the name used for a group... 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 that 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 Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (60,000 ft) into the air. August 9, 1945 World War II was a global conflict that started in 7 July 1937 in Asia and 1 September 1939 in Europe and lasted until 1945, involving the majority of the... 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 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 6 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress. January 19 - British troops attack Italian... 1941 of a wedding in the Amsterdam suburb where the Frank family lived. The camera cuts for just a few seconds to a balcony, where a young girl, Anne Frank, stands watching the bride and groom on the footpath below.


The film won an The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. Winners Following the Academys practice, films are listed by the award year, which is also the year in which the film was released under the Academys rules for eligibility. Due to the... Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. Events Environmental change The invasive species Asian long-horned beetle is found in New York January 7 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits eastern... 1996.


External links

  • Anne Frank Remembered (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112373/) at the The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), owned by Amazon.com, is an online database of information about movie stars, movies, television shows, commercials, and video games. The IMDb has an extensive amount of information on works, including basic details such as actors and directors, plot summaries and reviews, as well as... Internet Movie Database
  • Sony classics interview with Jon Blair about the making of Anne Frank Remembered (http://www.sonyclassics.com/annefrank/misc/interview.html)
  • Anne Frank House link to film image of Anne Frank (requires Quicktime Player) (http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=475&LID=2)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Anne Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5489 words)
The diary was given to Anne for her thirteenth birthday and chronicles the events of her life from June 12, 1942 until its final entry of August 1, 1944.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank ( May 12, 1889 – August 19, 1980) and Edith Holländer ( January 16, 1900 – January 6, 1945).
Margot and Anne were excelling in their studies and had a large number of friends, but with the introduction of a decree that Jewish children could only attend Jewish schools, they were enrolled at the Jewish Lyceum.
MSN Encarta - Anne Frank (676 words)
Frank, Anne (1929-1945), German-Jewish diarist, known for the diary she wrote while hiding from anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during World War II (1939-1945).
Anne and the others in the group were discovered and arrested by the Gestapo, the German secret police, on August 4, 1944.
Anne and her older sister, Margot, were sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died of typhus.
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