Anne Frank's Virtual Reality Film Planned For Fan to 'Immerse' In Icon's Life
Anne Frank is one of World War 2-era's most recognizable figures especially with the release of her iconic book, The Diary Of Anne Frank, that unmasks the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust.
To gain more knowledge about Frank's world, a virtual reality film by Jonah Hirsch is slated to be created. As per Inquistr report, the film will lend us the experience how she lived in her hideout and how she and her family hid to escape the prying eyes of the Nazis who regularly searche for Jews in the neighborhood.
The immersive aspect of the film will allow viewers to simulate the feeling of constant vigilance as they try every day to evade Nazi arrest and capture.
"To experience this film will be to immerse oneself into a place and time, to move about a room, amongst the people, and sense the moment in a way never possible before [virtual reality]," said filmmaker Danny Abrahms whom Hirsch co-opted in for VR movie production as quoted by Entertainment Weekly.
Offering a chance to 'feel like they are there' will be the movie's best selling point as it walks viewers down the history lane- an opportunity to re-imagine the socio-political setting of one of mankind's darkest moments.
"We are deeply committed to sharing Anne's experience using cutting-edge modes of storytelling so that her story can live on and reach as many young people in the world as possible," Abrahms further noted in a press release as quote by Jezebel.
In a nutshell, Frank was born in Frankfurt Germany but went into hiding alongside her family when the Nazis took full totalitarian control of the country as the infamous dictator Adolf Hitler pursued a genocidal policy of cleansing out Jews in Germany and then the rest of Nazi-occupied Europe.
It was during her hiding that she wrote much about her life in a diary which was later published as 'The Diary of a Young Girl' after the war. She didn't stay in the secret annex for long. She died sometime in 1945 in one of Hitler's concentration camps
