Helen Mirren `profoundly moved` by reconstruction of Anne Frank`s room
(The Guardian Books News)

Oscar-winning actor presents documentary retracing life of Jewish teenager killed by the NazisShe has performed on countless film sets, but Dame Helen Mirren was `profoundly moved` by the latest one: a reconstruction of the claustrophobic Amsterdam apartment in which Jewish teenager Anne Frank hid for two years from the Nazis with her family until she was arrested in 1944 and sent to her death in a concentration camp.The Oscar-winning actor is presenting a documentary, to be released in cinemas on Monday, in which Frank´s life is retraced through the pages of her diary, a classic of war literature. Continue reading...