Anne of Avonlea (1975 film) company's essay contest; fends off several suitors; and returns to Green Gables whenever she can to visit her adoptive mother, Marilla. Anne of Avonlea (1975 film) Anne of Avonlea is a film made for television 6-part miniseries, developed in the United Kingdom by the BBC as a sequel to its 1972 "Anne of Green Gables" miniseries. It is based on "Anne of Avonlea", the sequel to "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This British version was directed by Joan Craft, with Kim Braden in the role of Anne. Anne begins a new job as a teacher at the
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