“The Diary of Anne Frank” quotes
(1959)
Title The Diary of Anne Frank
Year 1959
Director George Stevens
Genre Drama, History, War, Biography
Year 1959
Director George Stevens
Genre Drama, History, War, Biography
Plot – During the summer of 1942, Franks family hides in an attic in Amsterdam to escape racial persecution and the Van Daan family soon joins them. They live there for two years and it's a terrible and tough experience. Teenager Anna Frank uses to write a diary and befriends Peter Van Daan. When the Allied land in Normandy, the families revive, but a thief discovers the hiding place and tells it to the Gestapo to be freed. Anna writes for a last time she still believes in human goodness. After eight months, she dies in a concentration camp. In 1945, her father Otto is still alive and returns to his house, where he finds her daughter's diary and reads it.
All actors – Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi, Diane Baker, Douglas Spencer, Dodie Heath, Ed Wynn, Arthur Berkeley, Robert Boon, John Corrydon, Delmar Erickson, Gretchen Goertz, William Kirschner, Edmund Purdom, Frank Tweddell, Charles Wagenheim, Bruce Walkup
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“You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.”
“I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
“Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.”
“We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.”
“We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.”
“You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful!”
“Always remember this Anna, there are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.”
“I want to go on living even after I'm dead.”
“I know it's terrible trying to have any faith when people are doing such horrible... But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not hundreds of years, but someday. - I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.”
“For the past two years we have lived in fear. Now we can live in hope.”
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