"Anne Frank: The Whole Story" (2001) TV mini-series

Director:

Robert Dornhelm

Writers (WGA):

Melissa Müller (book)
Kirk Ellis (teleplay)

Release Date:

20 May 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Drama | War

Tagline:

The hiding was only the beginning

Plot:

When the war began, she was only a little girl. When it ended, she was the voice of a generation... A compassionate and sensitive televisual portrait of the Holocaust's greatest diarist.

Plot Keywords:

Holocaust | Racism | Hunger | Slave Labor | Father Daughter Relationship

Awards:

Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 6 wins & 20 nominations

Cast

Ben Kingsley	...	Otto Frank
Brenda Blethyn	...	Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
Hannah Taylor-Gordon	...	Anne Frank (as Hannah Taylor Gordon)
Tatjana Blacher	...	Edith Hollander-Frank
Joachim Król	...	Hermann van Pels
Jessica Manley	...	Margot Frank
Nicholas Audsley	...	Peter van Pels (as Nick Audsley)
Jan Niklas	...	Fritz Pfeffer
Lili Taylor	...	Miep Gies
Peter Bolhuis	...	Victor Kugler
Victoria Anne Brown	...	Jacque van Maarsen
Jeff Caster	...	Lammert Hartog
Rob Das	...	Jan Gies
Holger Daemgen	...	Sergeant Silberbauer
Cees Geel	...	Wilhelm van Maaren

Also Known As:

Anne Frank (UK)

Runtime:

120 min | Israel:180 min | Sweden:190 min | USA:189 min (DVD version) | UK:190 min (DVD) | USA:190 min (copyright length)

Country:

USA | Czech Republic

Language:

English | German | Dutch | French | Hebrew

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | UK:12 | Singapore:PG | Brazil:14 | Sweden:11 | USA:Not Rated (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14 (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Dorothy Pictures

Trivia:

In preparation for one of the dream sequences, Hannah Taylor-Gordon (Anne Frank) took ice skating lessons, though she did have a stunt double for the more challenging skating moves.

Goofs:

Factual errors: During one of the air-raid scenes, Anne expresses hatred for all Germans. Otto reminds Anne that she is German, and she expresses surprise over this statement, asking Margot to confirm that they were Dutch. Actually, Anne knew full well that she was German, and expressed several times in her diary her sorrow over her "fatherland" being hijacked by the Nazis.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Anne Frank: I want to be a champion skater, and a writer. I want my picture in all the magazines. Maybe I'll be a movie star. I want to be different from all the other girls. I want to be a modern woman, I want to travel. I want to study languages - languages and history. I want to to everything. I want to...

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Knevel & van den Brink: (#3.19)" (2009)

Honest, Truthful, Real...Truly Anne Frank

Anne Frank. A girl like anyone else. Anne Frank. A girl who wanted to travel, to do great things, to be a "modern woman". Just an ordinary girl, who lived and died under extraordinary circumstances. Forced into hiding after the Germans gained control of the Netherlands, she was confined in an annex for two years, and then discovered and with her family was taken to a concentration camp. She later perished there. The only survivor of the annex group was Anne's father, Otto Frank. All that is left of her story is the diary she left behind. Her diary, her legacy to the world, defined the voice of a generation. Her irrepressible spirit and pure heart shine through within its pages. Her words, some of the most precious words in history, have been preserved for posterity in the novel, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This movie, Anne Frank: the Whole Story, tells this tale with such power it leaves the viewer in tears. From her bright, hopeful beginning to her heart-wrenching end, this movie grows a step further than the diary and really does show the "whole story". Inspiring, truthful, tragic, heartbreaking, yet triumph. 10/10