A Small Light

A Small Light
Genre	Biography Drama
Format	Live-action series
Created by	Tony Phelan Joan Rater
Directed by	Susanna Fogel
Starring	Bel Powley Joe Cole Liev Schreiber Amira Casar Billie Boullet Ashley Brooke
Production
Executive producer(s)	Susanna Fogel Avi Nir Tony Phelan Joan Rater Alon Shtruzman Peter Traugott
Production company(s)	ABC Signature Keshet Studios National Geographic Partners
Broadcast
Channel(s)	Disney+
Original run	May 1, 2023 – May 22, 2023
External links
IMDb page

A Small Light is an American biographical drama miniseries that premiered on Disney+ on May 1, 2023 and concluded on May 22, 2023.

Cast

• Bel Powley as Miep Gies
• Joe Cole as Jan Gies
• Liev Schreiber as Otto Frank
• Amira Casar as Edith Frank
• Billie Boullet as Anne Frank
• Ashley Brooke as Margot Frank
• Ian McElhinney as Johannes Kleiman
• Sally Messham as Bep Voskuijl
• Nicholas Burns as Victor Kugler
• Noah Taylor as Dr. Fritz Pfeffer
• Andy Nyman as Hermann Van Pels
• Caroline Catz as Auguste Van Pels
• Rudi Goodman as Peter Van Pels
• Laurie Kynaston as Casmir
• Liza Sadovy as Mrs. Stoppelman
• Eleanor Tomlinson as Tess

Production

On February 6, 2022, Disney+ had greenlit the miniseries from National Geographic, which Tony Phelan and Joan Rater will write and Susanna Fogel directing multiple episodes of the series. In April, Bel Powley was cast as Gies, with Liev Schreiber starring as Otto Frank and Joe Cole as Jan Gies.

Filming is due to take place between Prague and Amsterdam in summer 2022.

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