Her foster parents are so concerned about her lack of either employment or marriage prospects that they hatch a plan to marry her off to one of her adoptive brothers.Īcross eight episodes, Miep, in a sturdy, appealing performance by Bel Powley, channels her spirited party-girl rebelliousness into fearless loyalty to her new boss, the businessman Otto Frank, and angry contempt for the Germans who take over the city and systematically empty it of its Jews. Premiering Monday on National Geographic’s television channel and then streaming on Disney+ and Hulu, “A Small Light” is the coming-of-age story of Miep, who - in this dramatized, “inspired by actual events” telling - is first seen waking up hung over, in what appears to be her dress from the night before. It recounts the tale of the Frank family in World War II Amsterdam from the point of view of someone who was both intimately close to, and infinitely removed from, their suffering: Miep Gies, one of the extraordinarily brave Dutch civilians who helped to hide the Franks from the occupying Nazis for two years. The mini-series “A Small Light” is the Anne Frank story, but then it isn’t.
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