Nationwide Geographic has launch a trailer for A Small Gentle, its upcoming scripted collection about those that boldly selected to cover Anne Frank’s household and others from the Nazis throughout World Struggle II.
The eight-episode collection may have a multinetwork launch on Monday, Might 1, at 9/8c — with a simulcast of the primary two episodes throughout Nationwide Geographic, Nat Geo WILD and Lifetime. Freeform will air the identical episodes on Saturday, Might 6 at 8pm.
For the complete collection run, two episodes will debut each Monday at 9 on NatGeo, then stream the subsequent day on Disney+ and Hulu.
Based mostly on a real story, A Small Gentle follows Miep Gies (performed by The Morning Present‘s Bel Powley), a younger girl who was carefree and opinionated at a time when opinions received you killed, as Otto Frank (Ray Donovan‘s Liev Schreiber) asks her to assist cover his household from the Nazis.
Advised with “a contemporary sensibility,” A Small Gentle guarantees to “shake the cobwebs off historical past and makes Miep’s story really feel related, forcing audiences to ask themselves what they’d have performed in Miep’s footwear; and in trendy occasions, asking if they’d have the braveness to face as much as hatred.”
The solid additionally contains Amira Casar as Edith Frank, mom to Margot and Anne; Billie Boullet as Anne Frank; Ashley Brooke as Anne’s older sister, Margot; Andy Nyman, Caroline Catz and Rudi Goodman because the van Pelsses; Noah Taylor as Dr. Fritz Pfeffer.
Further solid contains leanor Tomlinson as Miep’s greatest buddy Tess, Sally Messham, Ian McElhinney and Nicholas Burns as Miep’s coworkers, Liza Sadovy as Mrs. Stoppelman, Laurie Kynaston as Casmir and Sebastian Armesto as Max Stoppelman.
