For this blog i watched the movie The Diary of Anne Frank. The movie starts off when her father Otto Frank and his family enter the house of Prinsengracht where there were in hiding from 1942-1944. He then finds his daughter Annes old diary in the old attic they hid in. He reads through the whole diary looking back on their lives through Annes eyes.
Anne and her family lived in Germany but were forced to move because her and her family were Jews. It was July 1942 when her and her family went into hiding. She was to wear as many clothes as possible, because they would look suspicious carrying around a suit case. Three other peope were joining them in hiding. Otto gave strict rules that there would be no moving, talking, walking, or use of water between the times of 8:30-5:00. Ottos friends Mr.Crawler and his secratary were the people who were keeping them hidden. On the first day that they are there, Annes father gives her a diary.
With all of the family being in one attic for such a long period of time, it becomes very hectic and stressful. Mr.Crawler brings them up a radio and some food and drink to keep them occupied and well fed. The radio is also keeping them updated on the war and what the Nazis are doing. Later on in the movie they invite another man into hiding named Alfred Dussel who is going to be Annes roommate. As Alfred is welcomed into the hiding, he begins telling everybody how horrble it is in the world. He was talking to Anne and she soon finds out that her best friend in school was taken away along with her parents.
One night Anne is laying in bed and has a dream about what life is like outside the walls she is in. She is seeing everybody all dressed up in the striped clothes, she is hearing the Nazis yelling, and hearing gun shots. After she had that she woke up to gun shots outside and hearing other Jews yelling and screaming outside, which caused her to start screaming for help.
On Hanukkah , they all gathered together around a table and shared some food and prayers. Anne made gifts for everybody and wrote poems for some and handed them out around the table. She even made a gift for Mushu which is Peters cat. That night, the cat was moving aound upstairs when there was somebdy down stairs, Peter jumps to get his cat and tripped over a bucket which made a very loud sound. Whoever was down stairs heard the noise and ran outside. Otto went down stairs to see if anybody was down their, and Anne and Peter followed behind him very quitely. They were all very lucky this time that they were not caught. The only thing the Nazis heard that time was the cat, everybody else was very lucky.
Late one night Mr.Van Dann was caught taking food which angered most of the people in the house. It was mostly Annes mom who was the most angry and was forcing him to leave the house. She was so angry because he was eating the food at night and not saving much for the kids to eat that were in hiding with them. Peter runs out with the radio rejoicing because it was official that D-Day has begun and everybody was so happy.
Eventually, everybody that is hiding up in the attic, is getting sick and tired of eachother. Some people are just wishing that they would get discovered up there and others are just considering killing themselves. That day, the Nazis found them and there hideout was discovered. Anne was unable to bring her diary with her, so she kept it safe and their hideout.
I thought this was a very good. I watched the old version in black and white and it was very long. It really showed what Anne Frank went through with all those years of just hiding out! That is a very long to hide out in such a small area, I know I would not beable to do that!
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Excellent job!