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Should you watch The Diary of Anne Frank?

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The Diary of Anne Frank

Series · 2009

Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.

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The sides of The Diary of Anne Frank

  • A teenage girl writing her diary
  • A family hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam
  • Eight people sharing a secret annex

The Diary of Anne Frank is good for you if…

  • you want to understand daily life in hiding during the war.
  • you want to hear Anne Frank's own words brought to the screen.
  • you can be moved by a girl full of life whose fate you know.

The Diary of Anne Frank is bad for you if…

  • the Holocaust is too painful for you to watch.
  • you need momentum, and this stays inside a few small rooms.

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