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Most hearbreaking moments

posted 16 years ago by Raw11
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In order:

1) Anne walks around the camp wearing only a blanket
2) The ending specifically the scene where Anne goes by in the train
3) Otto collapses weeping in the empty Annexe
4) Anne says goodbye to her cat Moortje
5) Margot dies

Next five:

7) Anne is separated from her father
6) Anne's hair is cut after arriving at Auschwitz
8) Hannah and her family are taken away
9) Anne's diary papers are thrown into the ground during the arrest
10) Anne talks to Jacque on the phone for the last time

And five more:

11) Margot's call-up notice arrives
12) Edith cries in sorrow in the pit after her daugthers
13) The children being led to the gas chambers after arrival at Auschwitz
14) Anne starts to cry in the bathroom after her first period
15) The fate of the Secret Annexe group are revealed near the end

[–] alexbogue3889 15 years ago

I agree.

[–] Minkus31699 14 years ago

After liberation Otto getting off the train and looking around for someone to greet him. Even though he "lives in hope" he knows there and then that his daughters are dead.

[–] BoyWiththeGreenHair 14 years ago

Any of the scenes in the concentration camps are difficult for me to watch.

Some more subtle moments that are nonetheless heartbreaking...

- Edith getting Margot's call-up notice and wiping the tears off of her face before running out of the apartment.
- Pfeffer hugging Anne after their arrest when Charlotte's picture is thrown onto the floor. Her eyes bug out because he hugs her so hard, and its especially touching since they had been arguing over that precise topic afew scenes earlier.
- Otto stating he will not send Anne and Margot to London and will "hope for the best," followed by everyone's awkward silence. Its frightening how secure he is with his own judgement, regardless of what Edith thinks, that it almost makes him a tragic figure. He can't bear to be seperated from his girls, and that's what ultimatly destroys the two most precious beings in his life.
- The families listening to the radio on D-Day with everyone overjoyed as if they were going to be free the next day ("my girls... we made it"). The very realization that they are deeply wrong in that belief is heartbreaking.
- Anne crying after talking about her dream of Hannah in the camp.
- Anne skipping over her mother on the bed after hailing her father with kisses for her birthday present ("I'm sure").
- The teacher crying about his wife's arrest in the classroom.

[–] BoyWiththeGreenHair 14 years ago

But, Edith's crying after her daughters has to be higher up on the list. I just can't imagine anything worse - not only losing my children to God knows what, but then being shouted and barked at, basically forced to keep working and go on with my life in that Hell-hole.

[–] Lady Cole 14 years ago

I think Hannah talking through the fence at Bergen-Belsen for the second time, and Anne not being there to hear her, broke my heart. They interviewed Hannah years later, and she said she believed that if Anne had known her father was still alive, some force of inner strength may have helped her survive. I honestly don't know if faith enough can help if you are as sick as Anne and Margot were, but I have to wonder....

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[–] kalexschroeder 14 years ago

The first encounter is just as heart-breaking to me.. The look on Anne's face when she says that Margot is sick because "we have no food!" is one of the things from this series that really sticks out to me.

I not sure Anne would have survived knowing her father was alive due to the lack of food and water at the camp, but I do think that she would at least lived another couple of months if it had to be her fate to die.

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[–] franchise_b 13 years ago

the scene where anne talks to hannah was the scene that got me. i remember when i watched it on tv in 2001 (i was 10), it was after hannah said "i used to pray for you too anne", and anne started to cry. i seriously started bawling like there was no tomorrow. seriously, there has been no other movie that has made me cry harder and made me feel depressed months after watching it than this.

[–] MydnightRose 13 years ago

-Anne looking up to the sky after Margot dies
-Edith collapsing in the dirt after hearing that Anne and Margot are gone, and Mrs. Van Pels struggling to get her up so she won't be killed as well.
-Otto telling Miep that "Margot and Anne aren't coming back"
-Otto only able to shake his head when Miep asks him about Mrs. Frank; can't even bring himself to say the words.
-Mrs. Van Pels screaming for Peter and her husband when they are separated at Auschwitz.
-I don't know why this affects me so much, but Margot having her glasses taken away.
-When Miep goes to get Anne's diary from the drawer and everyone else realizes from that action that Anne is dead.
*This is number one for me and always makes me cry. The ending of the movie when the slow motion clips of each actor/person is showed and underneath where, when and how they died. Followed by Anne on the train.*

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[–] BoyWiththeGreenHair 13 years ago

*** -I don't know why this affects me so much, but Margot having her glasses taken away ***

I actually found that moving, too. If only by the fact that every time I see photos of the thousands of confiscated glasses at the monument at Auschwitz, I always think "Margot's glasses might be in there."

Something simple like that just illustrates the strong, human connection between the Anne Frank story and the Holocaust. Oftentimes people try to either treat them as two separate entities or to neutralize the Holocaust aspect. But, yeah, they went to the camps, and the glasses that Margot wore were confiscated. That simple...

[–] skinny_school_girl 13 years ago

Oh my. So many moments to choose from.
Lets see.
1) When the men are forcibly seperated from the women and Anne is crying out for her father.
2) When we learn the fates of the other people in hiding.
3) When Anne realizes that Margot is dead. She has that look of someone who's just...given up.
4) When the women are getting their hair cut. If this movie had been about anything else, this would've sounded superficial and stupid but in this case it was like they were being stripped of their human qualities in that scene.

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[–] LordDynamo 12 years ago

Oh, god, there are many. Anne's life was really tragic if you think about it.

Note: these scenes are listed in chronological order.

The scenes where it starts to hurt are:
1. The Frank family leaving their home
2. The Goslars' arrest
3. The occupants of the Annexe are arrested by the Gestapo
4. Anne's diary and writing papers dumped on the floor by the colonel

The tears come when:
1. Anne is separated from her father
2. Anne gets tattooed on her arm, and the Kapo says the men are being taken to the gas chambers (I do also cry out in anger at that point)
3. The women get their hair cut
4. Edith breaks down in tears in the pit upon hearing news of her daughters

I weep uncontrollably when:
1. Anne is reunited with and talking to Hannah (to me, a key moment of the film)
2. Hannah's monologue on her father's death (the line at the end of this: "Anne, where are you?" makes me feel as lost and desperate as them)
3. Anne walking, dangerously ill, with only a blanket around her
4. Anne and Margot's last conversation with each other
5. Margot's death and Anne looking up at the sky, defeated
6. Otto telling Miep "Margot and Anne are not coming back"
7. Otto weeping in the Annexe
8. The ending, with the fates of all the people, and Anne in the train (when she smiles, I cannot help smiling back at her. It is that heart-rending)

[–] MightyTiki 12 years ago

How about over six million people died and Hollywood can cash in on their death and suffering.

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[–] elemenux 12 years ago

This is my order:

1) Anne takes care of a dying Margot in Bergen-Belsen
2) the first meeting of Anne and Hannah in Bergen-Belsen
3) Otto tells Miep that "Margot and Anne aren't coming back"
4) Anne's haircut in Auschwitz
5) Anne filling her bra with cotton balls before the sleepover at Hannah's house

1 and 2 really made me cry (and I'm an adult man), 3 symbolizes the end of any hope, 4 marks the passage from the optimistic, full of life Anne of the first 2/3 of the movie to the empty shell, devoid of will, of the last 1/3, 5 is a fictional scene, but I found it touching, as it depicts Anne's naivety and innocence, so soon wiped out by war and hate.

[–] marhefka 11 years ago

I divide the movie into three parts: 1. Before hiding out in Amsterdam 2. Hiding 3. After their capture. I think that part 3 is the best. Reading the comments on this thread confirms my belief. The vast majority of people's Most Heartbreaking Moments happen in Part 3.

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[–] christopher_reeve_fan 9 years ago

1. The moment when Anne's mother breaks down and agonizingly cries while working in the concentration camp after hearing about her daughters.

2. After Margot dies, Anne looks up at the sky with a look of utter despair on her face. It was at that moment when I felt that she lost the will to live.

3. When they reached another destination in the train, and Anne was so upset about being separated from her father. In this movie, it showed Anne having a great relationship with her father. I don't know if anyone else thought it showed them having a good relationship, but to me it did, which is why it was so heart breaking for me to see them getting separated.

4. The scene where someone told Anne that her father was being gassed.

5. The scene where they had to remove their clothes and have their hair shorn off.

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