New insignts about Anne's spicy personality and immense curiosity are revealed by Holocaust survivors Hanneli Goslar and particularly Miep Gies, an office employee of Anne's father who was one of the main helpers to the families in hiding.

Just when you might well have thought that pretty much all had been said and done about Anne Frank, this film makes us realize how much there still is to know about her and her times.

In retracing the short life and grotesque death of the century's best known diarist, Anna Frank, it has its own private dignity.

Thirty years later, Anne Frank Remembered remains essential not because it adds mythology to Anne Frank, but because it restores her humanity.