The Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish writer David Mamet is to script a new film version of the diary of Anne Frank.The film, produced by Walt Disney, will be closely based on the diary of 15-year-old Anne, who died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after hiding in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years with her family.
Mr Mamet won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, which was later turned into film starring Al Pacino. More recently, Mr Mamet received Oscar nominations for his screenplays and The Verdict. He has written several books on Judaism and Jewish history, including The Old Religion about the lynching of Leo Frank, and The Wicked Son, a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism.
Numerous film and adaptations have been made of Anne Frank’s diary, including a Japanese anime film, but the most critically acclaimed has been George Stevens’ 1959 film, which won three academy awards. The diary was recently made into BBC series in January 2009.
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I'll definetly go see it once it's released, the BBC One version of Anne Frank was very powerful, the Nazis were nothing more than animals & they still are
ReplyDelete"the Nazis were nothing more than animals & they still are"
ReplyDeleteThat's an insult to animals.