David Mamet to pen film about Holocaust victim Anne Frank
By ANIFriday, August 14, 2009
LONDON - Playwright David Mamet plans to write a script for a film on Holocaust victim Anne Frank, it has emerged.
Walt Disney announced that his screenplay would pick up information from Frank’s diary and a Pulitzer-winning 1950s play by husband and wife team Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich.
The diary of the Jew woman reports the horrors of belonging to her religion in Nazi-occupied Holland.
The current year marks the 65th anniversary of the death of the 15-year-old girl at a labour camp, after she was pulled out of her hiding place in Amsterdam, the BBC News reports.
Mamet landed with the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, which was later adapted into a film starring Alec Baldwin and Al Pacino.
He is also the scriptwriter of hit films like The Untouchables, Hannibal and Wag The Dog. (ANI)
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August 14, 2009: 8:11 pm
Mamet is to be commended for transforming The Diary of Anne Frank onto a film. Sometimes authors use a novel or screenplay to support political or social beliefs; or to cry out for morality and ethical principles. This is no more clearly evident than with Holocaust books and films. Whenever we stand up to those who deny or minimize the Holocaust, or to those who support genocide we send a critical message to the world. We live in an age of vulnerability. Holocaust deniers ply their mendacious poison everywhere, especially with young people on the Internet. Holocaust books and films help to tell the true story of the Shoah, combating anti-Semitic historical revision. And, they protect future generations from making the same mistakes. I wrote about the Holocaust to promote the wisdom and safety of our progeny. It is coming of age love story that also presents accurate scenes and situations of Jews in ghettos and concentration camps, with particular attention to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. It is important that we examine the constellation of emotions existing during a time of incomprehensible brutality. A world that continues to allow genocide requires such ethical reminders and remediation. Many authors feel compelled to use their talent to promote moral causes. Holocaust books and movies carry that message globally, in an age when the world needs to learn that genocide is unacceptable. Such authors attempt to show the world that religious, racial, ethnic and gender persecution is wrong; and that tolerance is our progeny’s only hope. Charles Weinblatt |
Charles Weinblatt