Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

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 | Amsterdam Netherlands | Historical | D Day | Sergeant

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:

The ABC project was not sanctioned by Bernd Elias, Anne Frank's cousin and chairman of the Anne Frank Fonds (which owns copyright of Anne's Dairy), as a result, the film cannot directly quote "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Anne's family are being loaded into the truck after their capture, and again boarding the train their breath is seen condensing as if it's a cold winter's day, yet this event occurred in early August. Similarly, when Otto Frank arrives back in Amsterdam 'one month after the liberation' (according to the caption) his breath is again seen condensing as he leaves the train and again by the canal, and the trees are clearly bare, indicating winter, yet 'one month after the liberation' would be early/mid-June.

Quotes:

Hermann van Pels: I got a joke for you.
Auguste Van Pels: Heard it.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002) (TV)

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.