Anne Frank on BBC1

Has anyone else been watching this?  It is an excellent production and the casting is first rate.  The actress playing Anne does such a great job and I particularly like Anne's mother.

My heart leaps into my throat every time they hear an unexpected noise.  I know I will be a wreck for the rest of the evening after the final episode tonight.

It has been so many years since I first read the book, I think it would be a good idea to go back and re-read it. 

I don't know if anybody remembers Pia Zadora - very pretty, but a terrible actress. However, she was very ambitious and decided that if she got some experience in the theatre, it would help her career. Fortunately, she had a wealthy boyfriend who backed a road company of The Diary of Anne Frank just so she could play the leading role.

Before the opening in Cleveland, Ohio, they had three weeks of intensive rehearsals, and every day was more and more frustrating for the director. The actress was impossible. She couldn't remember her lines, her delivery was amateurish, and the more she rehearsed, the worse she got. The director was ready to quit the show, but she told him she was a poor rehearser. "Believe me," she assured him, "when I face that opening-night audience, it'll all come together."

When the curtain went up she blew her opening lines, and her performance went downhill from then on. By the intermission the audience was totally fed up with her. Then, in the first scene in the second act, when the Nazi soldiers broken into the home, overturning furniture and shouting, "Where is she? Where's Anne Frank?!" the whole audience yelled back, "She's in the attic!"

Has anyone else been watching this?  It is an excellent production and the casting is first rate.  The actress playing Anne does such a great job and I particularly like Anne's mother.

My heart leaps into my throat every time they hear an unexpected noise.  I know I will be a wreck for the rest of the evening after the final episode tonight.

It has been so many years since I first read the book, I think it would be a good idea to go back and re-read it. 

I've been watching. I think it's a great adaptation. I'm going to buy the DVD for my nieces.

I have been watching it.  I'm finding it very interesting.  DH isn't impressed with it, but I really like it.  I think tonight will be very sad though.

I don't know if anybody remembers Pia Zadora - very pretty, but a terrible actress. However, she was very ambitious and decided that if she got some experience in the theatre, it would help her career. Fortunately, she had a wealthy boyfriend who backed a road company of The Diary of Anne Frank just so she could play the leading role.

Before the opening in Cleveland, Ohio, they had three weeks of intensive rehearsals, and every day was more and more frustrating for the director. The actress was impossible. She couldn't remember her lines, her delivery was amateurish, and the more she rehearsed, the worse she got. The director was ready to quit the show, but she told him she was a poor rehearser. "Believe me," she assured him, "when I face that opening-night audience, it'll all come together."

When the curtain went up she blew her opening lines, and her performance went downhill from then on. By the intermission the audience was totally fed up with her. Then, in the first scene in the second act, when the Nazi soldiers broken into the home, overturning furniture and shouting, "Where is she? Where's Anne Frank?!" the whole audience yelled back, "She's in the attic!"

Bzzzzzz.  Urban legend alert!!  http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/zadora.asp

Has anyone else been watching this? 

Yeah, i watched it... I agree, it was quite good.

I cried, of course.

I've been watching and think it's excellent, but sadly I missed the last show because I had to work late tonight.

I've been watching and think it's excellent, but sadly I missed the last show because I had to work late tonight.

They're going to replay the whole series on one of the other channels beginning January 26th if I remember correctly.

You can always watch on BBC iPlayer as well.

I just reread her diary a couple of years ago (for the umpteenth time).  I've only watched one episode of this series so far, but it seems very well done so far.

I really need to read the new, new version that came out 2001.  It only contains five more pages, but I'd like to read it anyway.

As I expected, the final episode had me in tears.  There was also a documentary this evening on BBC4 that was narrated by Kenneth Branagh.  The talked a lot with Miep, and had some with Otto Frank and friends of Anne's.

What was really sad is that Anne and Margo almost made it.  One of Anne's friends said that Anne thought her father had died, and thought that if Anne knew her father was alive, she might have survived. 

As I expected, the final episode had me in tears.  There was also a documentary this evening on BBC4 that was narrated by Kenneth Branagh.  The talked a lot with Miep, and had some with Otto Frank and friends of Anne's.

What was really sad is that Anne and Margo almost made it.  One of Anne's friends said that Anne thought her father had died, and thought that if Anne knew her father was alive, she might have survived. 

I cried more watching the documentary that followed on BBC4 than I did watching the series. Both the series and documentary were so well done. I watched them both with my 15-year old daughter. She was moved and impressed by them both as well.

What was really sad is that Anne and Margo almost made it.  One of Anne's friends said that Anne thought her father had died, and thought that if Anne knew her father was alive, she might have survived. 

I didn't watch the documentary, but one of the things that always upsets me is that Peter's date of death is the day Mauthausen was liberated.  I am not sure how close to the date his actual death was, but it has to be very close.

Hated the last episode.  It was so cheesy and romanticised that the academic in me was screaming.

Like the series as a whole, though.  Sad I missed the documentary - hopefully that's on iPlayer, too?