The Diary of Anne Frank

(George Stevens, US 1959, 180 min., 35mm)

Is there anyone who hasn't been touched by the true story of the teenage girl who was forced to hide in an Amsterdam attic for two years during World War II and still managed to write: "I still believe that people are really good at heart"? William C. Mellor's spare black and white widescreen cinematography won an Oscar. The bestselling book and Broadway play were translated into one of the first post-war films to confront the Holocaust on such human terms.