You should watch National Geographic's “A Small Light,” the eight-part retelling of the Anne Frank story — this time told primarily from the perspective of Miep Gies, the young woman who helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis for more than two years.
Miep Gies and Otto Frank watch as Nazi soldiers march down the street in Amsterdam in "A Small Light."In the more than three decades that I’ve been a TV critic, I have rarely written that viewerswatch the National Geographic Channel’s “A Small Light,” the eight-part retelling of the Anne Frank story — this time primarily from the perspective of Miep Gies, the young woman who helped hide the Frank family from the Nazis for more than two years.
Born in Vienna, Miep suffered malnutrition in the chaos after World War I, so her parents sent her to live with a foster family in the Netherlands. In the early 1930s, Miep is a fun-loving young woman who is resisting her foster parents’ efforts to marry her off to one of her foster brothers, and she’s looking for a job. Her new boss is Otto Frank , the father of Anne Frank.
While there’s a surprising amount of humor in “A Small Light,” it is, of course, by no means a comedy. Even when you’re laughing, there’s a sense of terror and tragedy hanging over the narrative — a parallel to what Anne and her family experienced.Schreiber, whose mother is Jewish, praised Phelan and Rater — the series’ creators, executive producers and writers — for finding a way to tell the story differently.
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