Anne Frank: The Whole Story 

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.

Stars:

Ben Kingsley, Hannah Taylor Gordon, Tatjana Blacher

Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 14 wins & 27 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Ben Kingsley	...	Otto Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Hannah Taylor Gordon	...	Anne Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Tatjana Blacher	...	Edith Hollander-Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Brenda Blethyn	...	Auguste Rottgen-van Pels (2 episodes, 2001)
Jean-Luc Julien	...	Various Characters (2 episodes, 2001)
Jessica Manley	...	Margot Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Lili Taylor	...	Miep Gies (2 episodes, 2001)

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

holocaust | starved to death | starving child | thinness | starvation | 

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Taglines:

She was 10 when the war began. She was 15 when she died and became one of the most remembered children of the holocaust.

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | War

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA Czech Republic

Language:

English German Dutch French Hebrew

Release Date:

20 May 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Anne Frank

Filming Locations:

Prague, Czech Republic

Company Credits

Production Co:

Milk & Honey Pictures, Dorothy Pictures, Touchstone Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

120 min 189 min (DVD) 190 min (DVD) 190 min (copyright length)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Black and White Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Due to the limited amount of time to use the set, two cameras were used to shoot the beach scene. There was no time limit on the use of the set. The beach was built on a stage with a blue screen for the ocean and sky background. The scene was only a page and 1/2 long. Only one camera was used.

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Goofs

The film implies a long-standing crush on Anne by Peter van Pels, even before the two went into hiding together. There is no evidence of this, and Anne hardly mentions Peter in her diary at all until January 1944 - a year and a half after going into hiding - when she expresses the overwhelming desire to talk to someone. Prior to this, Anne gives the reader the impression that she and Peter usually ignored each other.

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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...

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Connections

References Joop ter Heul (1968)

User Reviews

Scary

I know someone said that this wasn't an accurate account of Anne Frank's life but as an Asian and having only heard of Anne Frank through summaries in WWII stories, this movie really helped me to get to know this girl and her account of her life as a Jewish girl during WWII. Some facts and accounts may have been manipulated to make the story more interesting but the essence of the story was there. Hannah Taylor Gordon played Anne Frank almost too good; she even looked like the real girl and it was really scary. She really captured the spirit of the sweet wide eyed hopeful girl who never truly comprehended with the horrors of the war. It was heart wrenching to watch an innocent girl being thrown into a concentration camp but I doubt it was to get our sympathies; it was just an inkling of how the children were treated during the Holocaust. The young ones were sent directly to the gas chamber (they were useless; couldn't work) and others like Anne Frank, were made to work and suffer eventhough she was still struggling through her puberty. It wasn't a horror movie but it was scary, if you know what I mean; you can't help but cry for another innocent life lost and then be reminded in the end that Anne Frank was only one of the one and a half million children who died in the Holocaust.