Anne Frank - The Whole Story | 
| Director: Robert Dornhelm
Actors: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-gordon, Tatjana Blacher, Joachim Krol
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 3553
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 189
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD23528D
UPC: 786936161434
EAN: 0786936161434
ASIN: B00005LC5R
Theatrical Release Date: May 20, 2001
Release Date: August 28, 2001
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Product Description
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 holocausts greatest diarist. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 04/05/2005 Starring: Ben Kingsley Hannah Taylor-gordon Run time: 189 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Robert Dornhelm
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Anne Frank: The Whole Story delivers exactly what it promises: the incredibly moving complete story of Anne Frank, going beyond what the Jewish teenage girl wrote in her widely read diary. Anne, along with her family and friends of her family, hid in a secret annex behind her father's office in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of Holland. She dutifully kept a diary, which became a worldwide bestseller when her father published it in the 1950s. The story has been adapted for television and movies before, but this version, which played on ABC television, moves beyond what Anne wrote, meeting up with the Frank family before Anne receives her diary, and following her past the diary's last entries into Auschwitz and Birkenau. Hannah Taylor Gordon is a superb Anne, bringing to life the multifaceted girl, in turns intelligent, dreamy, creative, spoiled, and bratty, a girl like any other except that Anne is a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland. The only one who outshines Gordon is Ben Kingsley as Anne's father, Otto Frank. His quiet performance is extraordinarily powerful; as he watches his family slip away, it is impossible not to feel his grief. This brave film is difficult in parts to watch--the concentration camp scenes are brutal--but this is a remarkable adaptation of Anne's life, and it is a film to be shared and discussed and remembered. --Jenny Brown
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 Anne Frank November 3, 2008
The Anne Frank movie was amazing!! I watched, I cried and I loved it, I absolutely hope everyone sees this movie. It will melt your heart knowing that a little girl and others went throught such terrible acts from other human beings, this is sad to know but its very necessary for us to live a life of repect and love for one another, just like our Savior said. Thank You,
 Good Movie September 21, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie gives a good insight on what Anne Frank went through during this horrible time. I only wished to see more of the wide spread result of Hitler's insanity.
Anne August 29, 2008
Fabulous, loved the fact that it is her life before, during and after the diary.
Powerful, multi dimensional portrait August 12, 2008
The combination of outstanding acting and material from many sources provides a moving, sometimes horrifying, often warm picture of not only Anne Frank but the love and dedication which sustained many during the horrors of the Holocaust. Normally, the very thought of the time and place is enough to make one shudder, and to envision a world of pure evil and hatred. Though there is no gloss on that aspect, and the concentration camp scenes do not minimise the horror, the mutual caring of those in the Annexe and those who assist them (despite huge danger) provides a balance which can restore a picture of the essential goodness of human nature which even the worst conditions do not always destroy.
Though I have not read the particular biography on which this adaptation is based, I had previously seen interviews with those who knew Anne and her family, and memories of theirs are cleverly interwoven into the early sequences. Anne's portrait is frank and largely amusing, and the subtle recognition of how anti-Jewish measures in Amsterdam slowly stripped Jews of rights is well depicted. The gradual restrictions, at first bothersome but not horrid, are a keen reminder both of how respected neighbours can be reduced to outcasts, and, tellingly, of how those such as Otto Frank could initially have felt safe in Amsterdam.
Seeing Anne with friends, at school, in her lovely flat, and at Otto's office makes the impact of the hiding and constant fright understandable - I felt claustrophobic and trapped just watching the relatively peaceful days in the Annexe. Anne's reflections, based on her diary, will strike a chord with anyone. The hatred surrounding her from the invaders is clear, but the other struggles are those all of us face as we come to maturity, and the limited picture one normally could have from having 'seen' only the time in hiding can turn Anne into a monument rather than a cheeky, inspired, boy obsessed, intelligent teenager.
There are times when even brief lines capture a great deal. For example, when Otto Frank, in response to Anne's overall bitterness towards all Germans, reminds her both that the Franks are German and that protector Miep is Austrian (just like Hitler), it is a strong reminder of how coming to maturity means broadening perspective.
The scenes in the concentration camp do not spare the viewer the horror of the reality. Anne's screaming for her father; the tragic sequence when women, stripped of clothes and hair, try to cover themselves to maintain dignity; the utter cruelty of the female who tells Anne the men are already gassed as she tattoos Anne's arm with her identification number, all would cause one to wonder what sort of hatred could lead to so degrading others, even before we see or hear of anyone's dying. Camera angles which capture the chimneys of Auschwitz show us, all too well, the awareness of death with which the prisoners lived at each moment.
I believe that this film is enriching and enlightening, however painful the camp sequences are (and well they should be). My only caution for classroom use is that students need to have previous awareness of the history of the era, and have already braced themselves for scenes of the horror of the camps. Those who have only small familiarity with Anne's diary, which naturally chronicles no nightmarish events, could be very shocked otherwise.
Excellence August 7, 2008
This is an excellent presentation of the story of beloved Anne Frank, the story, the acting, the presentation, all are excellently and marvelously presented. Ben Kingsley shines in the role of the Father of Anne Frank, and the young actress playing Anne is simply a delight. Albeit, this is not a movie meant to entertain, it deeply probes and represents the truth and the original context of the Story of Anne Frank and the circumstances around her life. This movie will leave one shaken, moved, and touched, and the ending will burn a hole into a persons Soul. I recommend this film to anyone who wants to understand WWII, Anne Frank, and the German National Socialists.
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