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In the cinema: the diary of Anne Frank

The fabric has been made into a film, often for the cinema and television. However, the latest Version of the Anne Frank diary is the first German feature film for the big screen. Now he comes to the cinema.

“Why German producers have to leave the material for the Americans”, asked in 1959 upset of a major German daily newspaper, as the Hollywood production “The Diary of Anne Frank” in theaters delivery. George Stevens ‘ film version of the 1955 appeared to many critics and viewers at the time as too cheesy. There had to be more than a half-century before the film adaptation of the diary of Anne Frank to reach the audience, now actually as a German cinema production.

In the case of the 66. Berlinale the Film premiered in the series “Generation”, which is aimed primarily at young viewers, recently, the world premiere. On Thursday (3.3.) to be running “the diary of Anne Frank”, directed by Hans Steinbichler in the cinemas. It was probably no coincidence that the two-hour plant in Berlin, in a row, it was shown for a decidedly young audience. Stone bichlers Film tells the well-known events conventionally, with no great artistic ambitions, offers solid craftsmanship, good actor performance, a certain level of drama and always remains understandable. You can imagine the Film well in school.

When you move into hiding: Anne Frank

“‘The diary of Anne Frank’ is one of the outstanding documents of German history, and we have wondered why there has not been a German film,” the producers M. Walid Nakschbandi and Michael Souvignier in the run-up to the Premiere. “We found that it was high time.” In the remake of the substance of the 15-year-old Lea van Acken is hatched in the role of her diary to the world-famous girl. Her parents, Edith and Otto Frank, played by Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Noethen, sister, Margot, Stella Kunkat.

Two years locked up in a confined room – Anne Frank and her family

Stone bichlers Film told almost entirely chronologically, the history of the family, emigrated in 1934 from Frankfurt and Amsterdam to be settled. Shortly after the occupation of the Netherlands by the Nazis, they hid in the attic apartment of the rear building at Prinsengracht 263. Over two years, the family lived together with four other of the Nazis threatened Jews in the apartment of a confined space. To your 13. Birthday got Anne Frank a diary in which they listed henceforth, everything that you went through the head.

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Director Hans Steinbichler and screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer have kept in the film adaptation closely to the diary, have added further records of the family, long researched and all of that in your movie. But the two have also set their own accents. “For me, there were two crucial points in the project,” says Steinbichler: “first of all, the total of subjectivation and, secondly, the diary in a Talking turn.”

The remake shows the Fears of a normal Adolescent

Behind the diary had been “a clever, but normal girl,” says the Director. Him was important, “Anne of a supposed throne of a sacrosanct state”. This is the Film. He describes extensively the thoughts of an adolescent, adolescence, and pubertal behavior. Life in hiding is not reduced solely to the aspect of the threatening Situation created by the national socialist persecution.

In the apartment in the Prinsengracht all come together to celebrate also

The Film, the thought-world of a 15-Year-old to the young spectators in the audience almost bring can. “Anne is not, Yes, especially the victims of the national socialists, but first and foremost, a fun-loving girl with hopes and feelings,” add the producers. Anne Frank “was stolen from a normal life,” says Hans Steinbichler.

Anne Frank speaks directly to the audience

And the second very personal approach of the Director Steinbichler, the Implement of the written word to Speak? The play especially for the film opening: “I have proposed so-called ‘Speaches’, speeches Annes directly into the camera,” says the filmmaker: “I would like to ask: Who is it?”. To start off, so you see Lea van Acken as Anne Frank, who looks directly into the camera and the viewer’s frontal styling.

It outweighs the fear of discovery: Anne with her parents

Great historical materials, literature, films or documents of contemporary value, such as the diary of the adolescent Anne Frank will be made into a film every few years. The advantage of this is that you can always reach a new audience. A young spectator will take place from today, access to a melodramatic Black-and-White film from Hollywood from the years 1955? Probably not. Stone bichlers Film has a better chance.

A Anne Frank for the year 2016

A second Argument for a remake mention. The reference to actuality, to what Happened today. Although “the diary of Anne Frank” by 2016 adheres strictly to the historical events, but also room for mind games in the spectator: “My desire and will was to transform Anne Frank, almost imperceptibly, in our present time,” says the Director. Of course, the fabric is “still historical, but you do not need him on stage as a Sepia-pabulum.” Steinbichler is convinced that “we are only a blink of the separates what happened.”