A Small Light star Bel Powley and creator, writer and executive producer Joan Rater joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event Saturday to discuss the Holocaust-centric series and the importance o…
series debuts May 1st with two back-to-back episodes, with new episodes streaming the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.tells the story of Austrian secretary Miep Gies , a twentysomething who didn’t hesitate when her boss Otto Frank asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan and several others help watch over the eight people hiding in a secret annex.
Miep found Anne’s diary and preserved it so that she and Otto could later share it with the world.“Endangering your life [in such a way] could get you killed,” Rater explained Miep’s bravery in sheltering Otto and his family. “And she said, ‘I don’t need to think about it. It’s what anyone would do.’ And we know not anyone would because not everyone did, but she did. So, it’s a story about a very ordinary person who stepped up [and] became extraordinary when history happened to her.
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