"The Book of Ruth" Stars Tovah Feldshuh as a Surviving Anne Frank

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Jun 11, 2020 | News | Jerusalem & Area
"The Book of Ruth" Stars Tovah Feldshuh as a Surviving Anne Frank

What would have become of Anne Frank had she survived the Holocaust? That intriguing hypothetical is the premise of “The Book of Ruth,” a short film premiering online at the DeadCenter Film Festival on June 11. The debut film from Israeli American actress-writer-producer Chen Drachman stars Tovah Feldshuh as a Jewish grandmother whose secret identity we discover via a conversation with her granddaughter (Drachman) after a Passover seder.


Drachman got the idea for the film from a 2015 news report questioning the date of Frank’s death, and that made her think: “What if it had gone differently? Where would Anne be today? Would we know she was alive or would she keep it a secret, and what was the logic behind that? I found it fascinating on many fronts,” she told the Journal.

Photo by Greger Ravik. 


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