Anne Frank (2001– )
"Anne Frank: The Whole Story" (original title)

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, Jean-Luc Julien

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

Cast

Series cast summary:
Ben Kingsley	...	Otto Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Hannah Taylor Gordon	...	Anne Frank (2 episodes, 2001)
Jean-Luc Julien	...	Various Characters (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 | train ride | classroom | gestapo | schoolgirl | 

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Taglines:

There is more to hiding than keeping quiet.

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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:

Dorothy Pictures, Milk & Honey, 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

This mini-series' final episode's closing epilogue states: "One and a half million children were murdered in the genocide the Nazis called "The Final Solution". Anne Frank's story is only one of them."

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Goofs

The movie depicts Edith Frank telling Margot that her call-up notice was for Otto, who thus relays this message to Anne. In reality, Margot knew that the call-up notice was for herself, and told Anne that it was for their father to break the news to her gently, but she later told Anne the truth.

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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

Featured in Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004)

User Reviews

A Fantastic Adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary!

Let's face this fact that Anne Frank's diary is almost as well read as the Bible, Torah, and Koran. We all know about Anne Frank, the Dutch Jewish girl, who hid in the attic with her family during World War II from the Nazis. She wrote in her diary about life in the attic and how they lived under constant fear and terror. The cast has Sir Ben Kingsley as Anne's father, Otto Frank, and lone survivor. Brenda Blethyn OBE is also in the cast. It's chilling when they get to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, the separation, hair-shaving, and ritual act of dehumanizing everybody there. There was no talk among them as they sat with their hair being cut off for another purpose. We know who made it and didn't. After visiting Auschwitz in 2000, I didn't feel what I supposed to feel like ghosts and hauntings which I feared the most because it drains you emotionally. Even 60 years after the Holocaust, I fear that people are forgetting about it and not learning from it. We haven't learned because there are other Anne Franks out there. It is still a haunting and chilling testament of survival and the human spirit.