Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Directed by

Robert Dornhelm

Genre

drama film, war film, biographical film, drama television series, war television series

Country

Czech Republic, United States

Length

1 season, 2 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This miniseries tells the true story of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam during World War II. It follows her family's life in the secret annex and their eventual betrayal and capture by the Nazis.

historicalsoberingintimateseriousslow-burnpoignantgroundedsomber

What happens

Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a 2001 two-part biographical war drama television miniseries based on the 1998 book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The television miniseries aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. It aired in the United Kingdom in late 2001 on Channel Four. The television miniseries starred Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Lili Taylor. Controversially, but in keeping with the claim made by Melissa Müller, the television miniseries asserts that the anonymous betrayer of the Frank family was the office cleaner, when in fact the betrayer's identity has not been definitively established. A disagreement between the producers of the television miniseries and the Anne Frank Foundation about the validity of this and other details led to the withdrawal of their endorsement of the dramatization, which prevented the use of any quotations from the writings of Anne Frank appearing within the television miniseries. Both Kingsley and Taylor-Gordon received Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for their performances as Otto Frank and Anne Frank, respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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