Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) characters. Sullivan Entertainment also solely controls the commercial trademarks to "Anne of Avonlea", "Anne of the Island", and "Road to Avonlea". Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 Canadian television miniseries drama film based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and is the first in a series of four films. The film starred Megan Follows and was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Iran, Israel, Europe, and Japan. The film aired on CBC Television as a two-part
Anne Shirley to "Anne Montgomery". The book was extremely popular in Poland and during the Second World War, the "Armia Krajowa" (AK) resistance group issued editions of the book to remind its members what they were fighting for. Even through there is nothing about Poland in the "Anne" books, the AK still saw her as a symbol of the humanist values that they were defending. For a time, "Anne of Green Gables" was banned in Communist Poland, and the book circulated in samizdat editions as Anne was seen as a symbol of individualism and an unwillingness to submit to authority, making her