#Anne Frank: Parallel Stories

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Thu, Nov 5, 2020 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Thu, Nov 5, 2020 7:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Documentary Feature
Release Year:2019
Run Time:92 minutes
Production Country:Italy
Original Language:English
Trailer:https://youtu.be/FzT7-NfkxLA
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Sabina Fedeli
Anna Migotto
Cast:Helen Mirren

Description

“#Anne Frank: Parallel Stories” is a powerful retelling of Anne Frank's life through the pages of her extraordinary diary guided by the Academy-Award winning actress Helen Mirren, and through the lives of five women who, as young girls, were also deported to concentration camps but survived the Holocaust.


As a dedication to what would have been her 90th anniversary — and in cooperation with the Anne Frank Foundation — the documentary takes audiences into Anne's room within the secret annex of her family's hiding place before being deported, and through read excerpts of her diary intertwined with the experiences of the survivors who lived to tell their own parallel stories.


The film firmly roots Anne as a reference point as she wrote about what was happening to a Europe in flames at the time, about Nazism, her fears, hopes and dreams, while also providing the context of past human experiences for understanding our own present and future.