Anne Frank Remembered

Synopsis
Kenneth Branagh narrates this acclaimed documentary on the life of concentration camp victim Anne Frank. Using archival photos, family letters and interviews with survivors, a vivid portrayal of both the girl and what she came to symbolize is presented. Passages from her diaries are read by Glenn Close. Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature.

Production Notes
Shown at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival.
Released theatrically in New York City February 23, 1996.

A Jon Blair Film Company Production in association with the BBC and the Disney Channel and in co-operation with the Anne Frank House Amsterdam.

Interviews include: Miep Gies, Hanneli Goslar, Peter Pfeffer, Laureen Nussbaum, Jacqueline van Maarsen, Rachel van Amerongen-Frankfoorder, Sal de Liema, Rose de Liema, and Bloeme Evers-Emden

Also included are film clips of Anne and Otto Frank. Jon Blair
also uses information from his late 1970's interviews with Otto Frank himself.

The filmmakers received cooperation from the Anne Frank Museum to make the movie. The museum gave Jon Blair access to rare Frank family photos, never-before-seen letters, and a 10-second film clip that is the only known movie footage of Anne Frank. This brief image was captured by a wedding photographer in 1941, when Anne was looking out her window.

All rights in "The Diary of Anne Frank," photographs of Anne Frank and her family, and depictions of her handwriting are licensed from the Anne Frank-Fonds.

Steven Spielberg provided funding to complete the film.

Copyright 1995 The Jon Blair Film Company.

Reviews
"...A moving testament to courage and decency..." - Recommended (Premiere)

"...Heartbreakingly real..." -- Rating: A (Entertainment Weekly)

"...[A] riveting, often haunting documentary....A superbly researched, stirring film that is as much about the past as about the present..." (Variety)

"...The film's accumulated force is a testament to the power of understatement..." (New York Times)

"...At once beautiful and profoundly tragic....ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED is an elegantly structured work, with striking imagery and a stately pace, that boasts one of Carl Davis' most eloquent scores..." (Los Angeles Times)

"...ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED assembles rare documentary footage involving the Frank family....It also has moving interviews..." (Chicago Sun-Times)