The Diary of Anne Frank - DVD

The story is based on a stageplay which was in turn based on the actual diary of Anne Frank, whose family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942, sharing a very small space with several others. We watch her grow up in this claustrophobic setting, starting at age 13 and spending more than two years there until the group was discovered.

In 1968, with her gung-ho Marine husband (Bruce Dern) shipping out to Vietnam, a proper military wife (Jane Fonda) opts to volunteer at the local VA hospital, and encounters a high school classmate (Jon Voight) left a bitter paraplegic. The gradual deepening of their relationship, and the problems presented by her ever-more troubled spouse's return, fuel Hal Ashby's moving, groundbreaking effort. Oscar-winner for Actor, Actress, and Screenplay co-stars Robert Carradine. 127 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack English DTS Lossless stereo; Subtitles English; audio commentary by Dern, Voight; featurettes; theatrical trailer.

Anne Frank's world-famous diary comes to an abrupt end several days before she and her companions in the secret annex were arrested in 1944. This is the story of what happened next as this nameless young girl and her family were absorbed into the Nazi system of work and death camps. Through eyewitness testimony from camp survivors and historic pictures and film, the brutality and horror of Auschwitz, Sobibor, and Bergen-Belsen are revealed. Two of Anne Frank's friends remember both their school days in Amsterdam and the days before Anne's untimely death at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, just weeks before the camp's liberation.