Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PETER STEVENS London
KATHERINE L. STEVENS Lincoln, Mass.
The Diary of Anne Frank. Tighter than the book, more fluid than the play, a film masterpiece about the 13-year-old German Jewish girl who survived two years of hiding in occupied Holland, but who survived a concentration camp only in her diary. With Newcomer Millie Perkins, brillantly directed...
The drama, as so many know by now, takes place in a garret above an Amsterdam spice factory, where a group of Jewish refugees live in secret, under constant threat of discovery by the Nazis. Stevens' attempts to escape his spatial limitations, through open window spots and photographic tricks, are...
As compensation, Stevens concentrates upon Anne's metamorphosis from child to woman, on her love affair with Peter, a young boy confined with the Franks in the garret. While certainly present in the actual diary, these elements were in relatively small proportion.