One Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered beside her but whose faces have stayed hidden-Primo Levi. Helen Mirren, the Oscar® winner, will tell Anne Frank's narrative through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret hideaway in Amsterdam, meticulously rebuilt by set designers from Milan's Piccolo Theatre. Anne Frank would have turned 90 this year. Anne's story is intertwined with the stories of five Holocaust survivors, all teenage girls with similar ambitions and a strong determination to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss, and the Bucci twins, Andra and Tatiana. Their statements are interspersed with those of their children and grandkids.
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One Anne Frank moves us more than the countless others who suffered beside her but whose faces have stayed hidden-Primo Levi. Helen Mirren, the Oscar® winner, will tell Anne Frank's narrative through the words in her diary. The set will be her room in the secret hideaway in Amsterdam, meticulously rebuilt by set designers from Milan's Piccolo Theatre. Anne Frank would have turned 90 this year. Anne's story is intertwined with the stories of five Holocaust survivors, all teenage girls with similar ambitions and a strong determination to live: Arianna Szörenyi, Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Helga Weiss, and the Bucci twins, Andra and Tatiana. Their statements are interspersed with those of their children and grandkids.
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