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The Short Life of Anne Frank (2001)

The Short Life of Anne Frank poster
Original title
Het korte leven van Anne Frank
Directed by
Gerrit Netten
Genre
documentary film
Runtime
28 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV documentary about the life of Anne Frank. It shows the only known footage of her and uses her diary pages. Several actors narrate the story of her short life.

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What happens

The Short Life of Anne Frank (Dutch: Het Korte Leven van Anne Frank), also occasionally referred to as The Brief Life of Anne Frank, is a 2001 Dutch television documentary film about the life of diarist Anne Frank. It was directed by Gerrit Netten. The film was narrated by several actors, including Jeremy Irons, Joachim Krol, and Bram Bart. Thekla Reuten and Nicky Morris provided voices for Anne Frank. The film includes the only known footage of Anne Frank (taken in 1941), a video of Otto Frank in English (taken in the 1960s), and some pages from the original diary of Anne Frank are also videoed in the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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