Even More Top Jewish Films
This quintessential film, directed by George Stevens (A PLACE IN THE SUN; SHANE; GIANT) in 1959, starred Millie Perkins and Shelley Winters. In case you’ve lived under a rock (and by the way, I’ve recently meet a 30 year old who’d never even heard of Anne Frank), this film harrowing, true-life story of the Frank family who go into hiding during Holland’s Nazi occupation. For two years, the Franks, including thirteen year old Anne Frank and her older sister, along with the Van Daans family hid in a room on the third floor (kept secret by a hidden door) of their place of business (often referred to as the building’s attic). During this terrifying ordeal during which the two families and a dentist that joins them later – all that they know of the outside world comes from radio news, and the little street that the factory overlooks. Anne Frank documented her surroundings during those two years, up until the families’ location was betrayed and they were captured by the Nazis to meet their tragic fate.
One of the group’s last acts before capture is to hide Anne’s diary, which serves as the basis of the important film.
Madame Rosa’s a retired prostitute, a survivor of Auschwitz, and lives in the seedier part of Pigalle in Paris. She spends her time as a foster mother to children of other prostitutes. One of these children, Momo, is an Algerian boy whom she’s raised as a Muslim. When Madame Rosa’s health deteriorates, it’s time for Momo to become a man, and to begin caring for the woman who cared for him for all those years. Starring Simone Signoret, directed by Moshé Mizrahi, and based on Romain Gary’s novel, this film will pull on your heartstings long after the end credits roll.
Wily Madison reviews films, plays and other theatrical efforts when she is not slavishly working on enterprise seo for her clients.