Anne Frank virtual reality movie is in the making to take viewers to her secret annex
The production will use VR technology to appeal to a younger generation
Anne Frank's story is set to be told in a new virtual reality movie which will take viewers to her secret annex.
The production will use VR technology to recreate the teenager's room in Amsterdam, where she hid with her family during the Second World War and wrote her famous diary entries.
Producer Jonathan Hirsch is set to work with director Danny Abrahms and hopes the cutting-edge technology will appeal to a younger generation to teach them about the Holocaust.
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Abrahms told Entertainment Weekly: "To experience this film will be to immerse oneself in a place and time, to move about a room, among the people, and sense the moment in a way never possible before [virtual reality].
"VR to me is this new, amazing tool that can allow viewers to connect with people and events like never before.
"I wanted to create a VR experience that connected viewers with arguably the most significant event in human history – the second world war and the Holocaust – and I couldn't think of a better way to explore this subject matter than through the story of Anne Frank."
Abrahms told Entertainment Weekly: "To experience this film will be to immerse oneself in a place and time, to move about a room, among the people, and sense the moment in a way never possible before [virtual reality].
"VR to me is this new, amazing tool that can allow viewers to connect with people and events like never before.
"I wanted to create a VR experience that connected viewers with arguably the most significant event in human history – the second world war and the Holocaust – and I couldn't think of a better way to explore this subject matter than through the story of Anne Frank."
The film, entitled Anne, is the second virtual reality experience to tell the young girl's story after the Anne Frank Foundation created a 10-minute, 360-degree VR tour for museum visitors in Amsterdam last year.
Anne's diary was given to her on her 13th birthday and follows her life from 1942 until 1944 during the war. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Her father, Otto, was the only survivor of the family after she lost her sister to typhus and her mother to starvation. He returned to Amsterdam after the war to find her diary had been saved.
It was published in 1947 and later hit shelves in Britain five years later. It has since been translated into more than 60 languages.
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