Nat Geo's 'A Small Light' tells a true story of Anne Frank's protector. Read judyberman's review
alums Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, the miniseries spans more than a decade in the lives of Miep, her husband Jan , and the Franks. For most of its eight episodes, Otto , his wife Edith , and their daughters
and Margot are confined to close quarters with the family of Otto’s employee Hermann Van Pels . Miep’s Jewish dentist, Dr. Pfeffer , moves in early on, after she makes a passionate case to Otto that they can’t in good conscience turn him away. Miep is the group’s sole conduit to the outside world.
This might sound like the setup for the kind of harrowing slog that we associate with Holocaust stories. After all, we know how Anne’s tragically short life ended. Yetis true to its title. By centering the Gieses, Phelan and Rater illuminate the quotidian realities of the Nazi occupation—and particularly the courageous risks that regular Dutch people took to thwart the Reich’s genocidal mission.
The series is not without stagy monologues or dialogue that presses harder than it needs to on the moral imperatives at play. But since the credits rolled on the finale, it’s been the quieter ways in whichfleshes out the difficulties and dangers of being a good person in horrific times that have lingered in my mind. Key to this subtlety is the exquisite lead performance from Powley, a versatile English actor who broke through in the U.S.
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