Anne Frank - The Whole Story

Anne Frank - The Whole Story
by Robert Dornhelm

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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Joachim Kr?l, Tatjana Blacher
Director: Robert Dornhelm
Brand: TAYLOR-GORDON,HANNA
Cinematographer: Elem?r Rag?lyi
Editor: Christopher Rouse
Producer: David R. Kappes
Producer: Hans Proppe
Producer: Kirk Ellis
Writer: Kirk Ellis
Writer: Melissa M?ller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Walt Disney Video

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Movie Review: The Movie that No One Should Miss
Summary: 5 Stars

I have just finished watching this, and I can only say how moving it was. I have seen two different version of The Diary of Anne Frank, the 1950'ns version with Millie Perkins, and the 1980 version withe Melissa Gilbert, as well as a local stage production. However, while I watched this, I felt like I was part of their world. I was able to see how carefree Anne was, hanging out with her friends, going to school, just being an every day schoolgirl. The movie is a little over three hours, and divided roughly into three parts, pre-hiding, during hiding, and post-hiding. While all other versions begin the movie with the family going into the secret Annex, and ending with the Nazi's finding them, this went above and beyond. I will not deny the fact that during the whole last hour, I was crying. To see what those poor people went through, just because they were Jewish. It is a movie every person should see. The character of Anne was shown how Anne herself described herself to be, talkative, annoying, and bratty. My boyfriend whom I watched it with kept repeating, she is so annoying. How could she be so annoying? Which I felt was good, because that is how she was, or so she says. Not to mention the actor playing Mr. Frank looked so much like the real Mr. Frank it was uncanny. During the scenes of discovery, you are so drawn in, that you are hoping there is an alternate ending. However, this is real life and there is no alternative ending.

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Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, and Hannah Taylor Gordon star in the stirring tale of one of the most influential young women of the 20th century. Based on Melissa Muller's critically acclaimed book, ANNE FRANK goes beyond the story you already know and paints the true portrait of Anne both before and after she went into hiding. Get to know the high-spirited and popular girl before the war, and experience the challenges of the brave people who risked their lives trying to keep her safe. ANNE FRANK also explores the enduring mystery of who betrayed the Frank family and reveals what happened next.

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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