Where is Anne Frank Movie Storyline. In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War.
Ari Folman’s first international animated film on the Holocaust has been selected as part of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival official selection.In her diary, Anne Frank addressed her imaginary friend Kitty. In his new animated film Where Is Anne Frank, Israeli director Ari Folman brings Kitty to life for the first time, telling her own story. In search of her best friend Anne Frank, Kitty becomes a witness to the Frank family’s last months in the Holocaust, and to Europe after the Second World War. Where Is Anne Frank is a 2021 animated fantasy film directed by Israeli director Ari Folman.
The animated film Where Is Anne Frank tells from a new perspective the history of the German-Jewish girl Anne Frank who kept a diary while in hiding in Amsterdam during World War II. The diary, which was published two years after her death in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, has become world famous. Through the diary, Anne Frank has become a worldwide symbol for the victims of racism, antisemitism and fascism. The film Where Is Anne Frank shows that Anne Frank’s history is not only about the past, but is also history for today.[4] The main goal of the film is to reach younger audiences.
Where Is Anne Frank was shown out of competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 9 July 2021,[5][6] and was released in France on 8 December 2021 by Le Pacte, and in Belgium on 15 December 2021 by Cinéart. It is set to be released on 16 March 2022 in Luxembourg, and on 30 March 2022 in Netherlands.
Who was Anne Frank?
Annelies Marie Frank was 13 years old when she had to go into hiding with her family to escape from the National Socialists. She lived in a secret annex for 25 months with her family and other acquaintances. She recorded her experiences, observations, and feelings in her diary.
During the Second World War, the German-Jewish Frank family and four other Jews had to hide from the National Socialists in Amsterdam. During this time, 13-year-old Anne Frank recorded her thoughts and feelings in her diary. However, she also described everyday life in the secret annex and the overwhelming fear of being discovered. The diary ends on 1 August 1944; three days later the secret annex was discovered, and Anne died seven months later in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
The Diary
After the war, the various diaries written by his daughter were returned to Anne’s father who had extracts from them published for the first time in 1947. The complete version of the Diary of Anne Frank has so far been published in more than 70 languages. Many revised versions have also been published. The globally binding version that was published in 1991 contains all the sections of the original diary.
Holocaust History
The history of the Holocaust (also known as the Shoah) covers the deprivation of rights, persecution and annihilation of the Jewish population in Europe. This development started in the early 1930s with the systematic marginalisation of Jews in Germany through stigmatisation, calls for boycotts and legal regulations, such as occupational bans and the exclusion of Jewish children from state schools. It continued with expropriation and expulsion.
The Pogrom Night of 9 November 1938 marked the start of the genocide: arrests and deportations culminated in forced labour and industrially implemented mass murder in the labour and extermination camps of the Nazi dictatorship. By the time of the Allies liberated Germany, hunger, exhaustion, disease as well as mass shootings and gassings had claimed the lives of about six million people, including Anne Frank and all the other inhabitants of the secret annex, with the exception of Otto Frank.
Jews and Anne Frank
Anne Frank and her sister Margot were born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany and spent the first years of their lives there. Anne and her family were liberal Jews and celebrated most Jewish festivals, living a traditional rather than a strictly religious life. After the NSDAP came to power in January 1933 and in view of the escalating threat faced by Jews living in Germany, the family moved to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. However, the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 resulted in the persecution of the Jewish population there, too.
This meant that Anne and Margot had to leave their schools in the autumn of 1941 and transfer to the Jewish Lyceum. From May 1942 onwards, all Jews were forced to wear a Jewish star visibly on their clothes. Soon after this measure was introduced, the mass deportations of the Jewish population started. On 5 July 1942, Margot received a summons to report for “participation in labour duty in the east”. The following day, the whole family, i.e. Otto and Edith Frank with Anne and Margot, went into hiding in the secret annex.
Where is Anne Frank (2022)
Directed by: Ari Folman
Starring: Ruby Stokes, Emily Carey, Sebastian Croft, Ralph Prosser, Michael Maloney, Samantha Spiro, Skye Bennett, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Stuart Miligan, Andrew Woodall, Naomi Mourton, Ari Folman, Nell Barlow, Maya Myers
Screenplay by: Ari Folman
Cinematography by: Tristan Oliver
Film Editing by: Nili Feller
Art Direction by: Asya Aizenstein, Bosmat Agayoff
Music by: Ben Goldwasser, Karen O
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Altitude Film Entertainment
Release Date: March 18, 2022
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