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A Small Light
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A Small Light is a National Geographic Channel biographical drama miniseries created by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan that was released in May of 2023.It details the story of Miep and Jan Gies, a Dutch couple that helped the Jewish Frank and van Pels families hide from the Nazis during World War II in occupied Amsterdam.The show stars Bel Powley as Miep Gies, Joe Cole as Jan Gies and Liev Schreiber as Otto Frank.It can be watched on Disney+. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The series ends with a quote Miep would often end her speeches with. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: German is spoken in the series. English stands in for Dutch, so despite it being set in the Netherlands, Dutch is not spoken, and all written materials are in English. | |
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It Works Better with Bullets | |
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It Works Better with Bullets: The gun the Resistance gives Jan to assassinate the Nazi officer wasn't even loaded, a fact that the inexperienced Jan doesn't notice. This was done on purpose, since the point of the mission was a test to see if Jan could really kill. | |
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Good-Guy Bar | |
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Good-Guy Bar: There is a bar in the show where many of the Resistance members meet and plan. | |
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La Résistance | |
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La Résistance: The Dutch Resistance is a major force in the show, and Jan Gies later joins up with them. | |
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Foreign Cuss Word | |
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Foreign Cuss Word: A stressful moment has Otto Frank yelling out Scheiße, which is German for shit. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: Despite the efforts Miep and Jan and their friends go to protect the residents of the annex, they will end up being caught, and only one, Otto Frank, will survive the Holocaust. | |
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Secret Test of Character | |
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Secret Test of Character: The Resistance sends Jan to assassinate a high-ranking Nazi officer in his hotel room to see if he has the ability to kill for the cause. It ends up being a set up where the officer is actually a member of the Resistance, and the entire mission was just a test for Jan. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The Netherlands is freed and Miep survives the war, along with her husband and her fellow employees. Otto Frank comes back from the concentration camps, but his entire family and all the other people that had been hiding at the Annex are gone. Anne's diary is a beacon of hope for humanity after it is published. | |
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Intergenerational Friendship | |
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Intergenerational Friendship: Miep Gies and Otto Frank. Later he becomes close with her husband Jan as well. | |
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Jumped at the Call | |
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Jumped at the Call: When Otto Frank takes Miep into his confidence about his plans to hide, he tells her to think it through and then decide if she wants to be involved with helping them. Miep says that is not necessary. She will help. | |
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Friendly Enemy | |
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Friendly Enemy: One Nazi saves two children that were about to put on transport and brings them to Miep and Jan secretly in the evening. | |
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Nazi Gold | |
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Nazi Gold: Miep realizes how dirty her friend's boyfriend is when she receives a necklace from her that turns out to have been stolen from Jewish people. | |
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Les Collaborateurs | |
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Les Collaborateurs: The Dutch NSB are a major source of danger for the main characters in the series, as they were in real life. | |
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Closet Gay | |
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Closet Gay: Cas, Miep's adoptive brother. While homosexuality in pre-Nazi Amsterdam wasn't quite as openly embraced as nowadays, homosexuality had been legal for more than a century by the start of the war. Cas needing to be in the closet becomes more important when the Nazis take over. | |
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Females Are More Innocent | |
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Females Are More Innocent: When the Annex is discovered and the inhabitants are taken away, the older male employees insist Miep will play to this trope to save herself. Instead, she makes use of the leader being from Vienna to gain a human connection with him. He does indeed let her go, amidst some threats. | |
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America Won World War II | |
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America Won World War II: Averted. During the occupation, references were made to the Allies in general and their progress. The Northern part of the Netherlands was freed mostly by Canadians. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Otto Frank is a successful middle-aged business man with a family who fled Nazi Germany. Miep is his young, cheeky employee who doesn't have the right credentials to do the job right. She is the one he turns to for help when the Nazis invade the Netherlands and after the occupation, he lives with her and her husband for seven years. | |
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Secret Diary | |
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Secret Diary: Anne Frank's diary is easily the most famous diary in history. Miep saves it before the Nazis can take it away and later hands it back to Otto Frank, who has it published. | |
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Power of Trust | |
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Power of Trust: Otto Frank completely trusts Miep and she shows she is worthy of it throughout the war. Jan's colleague and employer also realize they can trust him when they notice he is sneakily helping people and get him involved into the resistance. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: Towards the end of the episode Boiling Point, the residents of the annex and their friends hear about D-Day and become hopeful that they will be liberated soon. The episode ends with the Gestapo beginning the raid of the annex. The final episode has everyone hopeful that Anne, Margot and Peter survived the camps when Otto returns. As the Foregone Conclusion entry states, only Otto survives. | |
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Real-Person Epilogue | |
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Real-Person Epilogue: The series ends detailing what becomes of the major characters after the events of the show. | |
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Translation Convention | |
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Translation Convention: Dutch is portrayed as English in the show. Both written and spoken. | |
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Not Blood Siblings | |
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Not Blood Siblings: Miep's adoptive parents bring this point up when they suggest her marry Cas. Neither Miep nor Cas support this idea, especially since Cas is a closeted homosexual. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Miep Gies to her employer and friend Otto Frank and his family. Even when they are captured by the Gestapo, she still tries to bribe them to free them at great personal risk. | |
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