Anne Frank: The Whole Story | |
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Genre | Biographical war drama |
Based on | Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller |
Screenplay by | Kirk Ellis |
Directed by | Robert Dornhelm |
Starring | Ben Kingsley Brenda Blethyn Lili Taylor Hannah Taylor-Gordon Tatjana Blacher Joachim Król Jessica Manley Nicholas Audsley Jan Niklas |
Theme music composer | Graeme Revell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom Czech Republic United States |
Original languages | English German French Spanish Italian Dutch Hebrew |
No. of episodes | 2 |
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Executive producers | Tomas Krejci Hans Proppe |
Producer | David R. Kappes |
Production location | Prague, Czech Republic |
Cinematography | Elemér Ragályi |
Editor | Christopher Rouse |
Running time | 190 minutes |
Production companies | Milk & Honey Pictures Dorothy Pictures Touchstone Television |
Original release | |
Network | American Broadcasting Company |
Release | May 20 May 21, 2001 | –
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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. 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.