Anne Frank

UPC: 786936792225

Studio: Disney Educational

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations]

Summary: Anne Frank was an ordinary girl forced by circumstances to bear witness to the most extraordinary tragedy of the 20th century, and the diary she left behind became one of the best known and most affecting documents of those who struggled to survive the Holocaust under Nazi occupation during World War II. Anne Frank is a four-hour television miniseries that retells the well-known story of the Frank family as they hid from Nazi occupation forces in an attic in Amsterdam between 1942 and 1944, but it also takes a look at the life Anne and her family led before the pogrom swept through Germany and Holland, as well as the harrowing details of the grim fate that awaited the Franks in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Hannah Taylor Gordon stars as Anne Frank, with Ben Kingsley as her father Otto, Jessica Manley as her sister Margot, Brenda Blethyn as Auguste Van Pels, and Lily Taylor as Miep Gies; the real-life Miep Gies, one of the Frank family's benefactors, served as a consultant to the producers of this project. Anne Frank (also advertised as Anne Frank: The Whole Story) was first aired by the ABC television network on May 20 and May 21, 2001. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Category: Drama

Awards: Best Miniseries or Made for Television Movie – American Film Institute Best Male Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series – American Film Institute Best Female Actor in a Television Movie or Mini-Series – American Film Institute Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Pict – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Pictur – null Best Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries – Screen Actors Guild Outstanding Miniseries – Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Pictur – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Pict – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Anne Frank

Format: Digital Video Disc (DVD)

Release Date: 03/31/2009

Mike Cummings

Almost everyone knows the heartbreaking story of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl condemned to Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp after she and her family spent two years in an Amsterdam attic hiding from the Nazis. The extraordinary book she wrote while in hiding, called Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl), recorded her poignant and incredibly wise observations about life. Anne Frank tells her story, beginning in 1939, when she is a happy schoolgirl bursting with dreams. Later, the Nazi occupation of Holland changes everything. The film builds suspense gradually, showing the fingerprinting of Anne and her father, the beating of Jews by Nazi supporters, the tedium of daily life in the attic, and the appearance of a snooping Nazi collaborator in the employ of the business operated by the non-Jews who supply the attic dwellers -- the Franks and several other Jews -- with food and medicine. During the day, Anne gazes longingly out the window at life below -- people strolling, riding bicycles, pushing baby carriages. At night, Anne and the others huddle in terror as allied planes bomb the city or Nazi patrols round up Jews on the streets below. The entire cast performs with distinction, in particular, Ben Kingsley as soft-spoken Otto Frank and Hannah Taylor-Gordon -- a spindly slip of a girl with dark eyes and a winsome smile -- as Anne. To heighten the sense of realism, the cinematographers show archival film snippets of wartime Amsterdam. When the camera's vantage point shifts, actors and extras take the places of the real people. Then color gradually infuses the black-and-white images. The production follows the fate of the Franks to the very end. ~ Mike Cummings, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Michael Horakova  Actor 
Nick Audsley  Actor 
Klara Issova  Actor 
Victoria Anne Brown  Actor 
Rob Das  Actor 
Jessica Manley  Actor 
Jeff Caster  Actor 
Peter Bolhuis  Actor 
Robert Dornhelm  Director 
Kirk Ellis  Screenwriter 
David Kappes  Producer 
Graeme Revell  Composer (Music Score) 
Hans Proppe  Executive Producer 
Ben Kingsley  Actor 
Hannah Taylor-Gordon  Actor 
Brenda Blethyn  Actor 
Tatjana Blacher  Actor 
Joachim Krol  Actor 
Jan Niklas  Actor 
Lili Taylor  Actor 
Cees Geel  Actor 

Country: USA