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WINTER 2007 The filming of Anne Frank’s Diary has just finished. Not surprisingly, it’s affected us all very strongly. For six weeks the actors and crew have been closeted in the claustrophobic annexe – three rooms and an attic – that was the Frank family’s hiding place for two years, from 1942 to 1944. It has been reproduced faithfully in a film studio in the East End, and whilst outside the pile drivers have been banging away, laying the foundations of the Olympic city, within those rooms eight people were struggling for survival while Europe was being laid waste around them. Modern bombardments have taken the place of the old ones. Ellie Kendrick, the young actress playing Anne, has been living
in my house during filming. At six in the morning she has been
creeping downstairs to be driven to the set; it’s been the
strangest sensation, having her in the house. Rather wonderful,
really, for I’ve been feeling very close to the actors in
their incarceration, and on the last weekend accompanied them to
Amsterdam for two days of shooting exteriors - the Frank
family’s journey to their hiding place, and Anne’s
view of the outside world through the curtains of the annexe. A
gigantic rain machine was installed outside the Anne Frank Museum,
the streets were roped off, and various extras, including myself
and various members of the crew, sauntered around being passers-by
and Gestapo officers. And before I forget. “In The Dark”, my latest novel, would make a lovely Christmas present. Nice cover, too. Do get in touch if you fancy, info@deborahmoggach.com |
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