World War II · Film · 1959
The Diary of Anne Frank
Thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and seven others hide for two years in a secret annex above an Amsterdam office, where fear, quarrels and first love unfold in a few silent rooms.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 1 places.
Stop 1: Secret Annex, Prinsengracht 263, Amsterdam
Key location
Behind a movable bookcase, Anne grows up in hiding, falls for Peter and fills her diary while the Germans search the city.
What really happened
On 6 July 1942, after Anne's sister Margot was summoned for deportation, the Frank family went into hiding in the rear annex of Otto Frank's business at Prinsengracht 263, later joined by the van Pels family and Fritz Pfeffer. Office staff led by Miep Gies kept them supplied, and Anne wrote her diary there until 1 August 1944.
On 4 August 1944 the hiding place was raided and all eight were deported. Anne died in Bergen-Belsen in early 1945; Otto, the only survivor, published her diary in 1947. The film adapts the Pulitzer-winning Broadway play, won three Academy Awards, and ends with the arrest, leaving the fate of the eight to a brief epilogue.
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Full details
- Original title
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- Directed by
- George Stevens
- Countries
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Released
- 1959
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Holocaust
- Biography
- True story
