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Director David de Jongh represents the life Otto Frank in his documentary Otto Frank, the father of Anne. The film deals with various facets of Otto Frank’s life: his youth in Germany, including his military service during the First World War, his marriage to Edith Holländer and the birth of their daughters Margot and Anne, their flight to the Netherlands, the time in hiding and the ...
The movie begins with a truckload of war survivors stopping in front of a factory. Otto Frank (Anne Frank’s father gets out of the truck and walks out and into the factory. He climbs the stairs and into a deserted attic, there he finds a girl’s discarded glove, he starts sobbing. He is then joined by Miep Gies and Mr. Kraler who comfort him.
After selection, Otto Frank ended up in Auschwitz I where he was forced to perform forced labour until he became too ill and ended up in an infirmary barrack. Event. Sept. 6, 1944 - Jan. 27, 1945. 50.025722 N 19.204069 E. Oświęcim.
Otto Frank. Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was the father of Anne Frank. He edited and published the first edition of her diary in 1947 (subsequently known in English as The Diary of a Young Girl) and advised on its later theatrical and cinematic adaptations. Read more on Wikipedia.
1 hr 15 mins. NR. Watchlist. Directed by David De Jongh, this documentary examines the post-Holocaust life of Otto Frank, father of diarist Anne Frank and the sole family member to survive ...
Otto Frank. Father has been home a lot lately. There’s nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you’re not needed. Shortly before the Frank family goes into hiding, Anne writes in her diary that her father has been home more often lately, likely due to the escalation of the war. Her lament that “it must be awful to ...
