Diary of anne frank movie#
Diary of anne frank tv#

Nightmare Sequence: One night, while Anne is asleep, she has a nightmare about the concentration camps, with the 'Sieg Heil' chants in the background.My God, What Have I Done?: Anne becomes ashamed of the way she was cruel towards her mother - such as when she asked for Otto to comfort her after a nightmare instead, causing Edith to cry.Dussel's character name remained unchanged.

Diary of anne frank tv#

Dussel was injurious to Pfeffer's life, since he was in real life a master of Hebrew and far from ignorant of Jewish traditions, in contrast to being portrayed by Ed Wynn, an actor known as 'The Perfect Fool', and after the cancellation of his most recent TV series, had been urged by his son, Keenan Wynn, to pursue dramatic roles. Charlotte Kaletta, who posthumously married Fritz Pfeffer in 1950 (with the marriage retroactively in effect from until his death in 1944), felt that the pseudonym and character of Mr. However, in the movie, Dussel mentions that he was born in Holland, as were his father and grandfather, so that makes him a native Dutchman despite being assigned a German last name as a pseudonym in the diary. Meaningful Name: Played with Dussel, the pseudonymous last name of Fritz Pfeffer, means 'nitwit' in German.Last Kiss: Anne and Peter share a desperate, passionate kiss before their impending arrest.Kissing Discretion Shot: Anne and Peter's first kiss is completely silhouetted.The cat ends up saving them when he meows after eating and knocking over toast, affirming the Gestapo that there is no one in the Annex but a stray cat. Irony: Peter's cat Mouschi nearly gets the inhabitants arrested by wandering around freely, and Peter makes a loud noise trying to catch him.Tragically, the Nazis find them before that happens. Hope Spot: When D-Day finally arrives, everyone in the Annex is ecstatic and are optimistic that the Allies will win the war and they will be liberated.Also Margot was considered genuinely pretty in real life but the producers still manages to take it to a whole other level by casting Diane Baker as her.

Diary of anne frank movie#

Historical Beauty Update: Millie Perkins isn't merely somewhat more conventionally attractive than the real Anne Frank, people thought she resembled Audrey Hepburn in many scenes and on top of that outside the movie people praised her looks as similar to a young Elizabeth Taylor (which is even commented in some moments of the movie).This causes Anne to further feel like no one understands her at all and harbors resentment towards her sister. The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Anne and Margot's relationship Anne is expected to act more like Margot, who is quiet and polite, while Anne is energetic and speaks her mind.

The news of D-Day raises everyones spirits and causes everyone to apologize to each other and make up.

Van Daan leave the Annex to find another hiding place. Van Daan steals bread in the middle of the night, Edith is so furious that she demands that he and Mrs.

Downer Ending: The Franks's hiding spot is betrayed to the Nazis.

Downer Beginning: The movie opens with Otto, who was the only one to survive the concentration camps, revisiting the Secret Annex in grief of the loss of his late family.

Daddy's Girl: Anne absolutely loves her father yet is cruel and distant towards her mother, thinking she doesn't understand her at all.