Anne Frank - The Whole Story
by Robert Dornhelm
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Actor: Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Joachim Kr?l, Tatjana BlacherDirector: 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
DVD Reviews of Anne Frank - The Whole Story
DVD 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. DVD Review: By far the best Anne Frank movie out there!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was extremely well done from beginning to end. Sir Ben Kingsley and Hannah Gordon were splendid in their roles.
The movie progresses quite well. We see Anne living a somewhat normal life -- living in a comfortable home, first crush, friends, school -- despite her family's Jewish faith. Slowly, things are being taken away from them ... Anne has to leave her regular school and go to a Jewish school, Anne can no longer be friends with another girl because the other girl's Aryan family is anti-semitic, and now it is mandatory that all Jews wear the Star of David on their clothing. And quite often, Jews are being rounded up and sent away. A powerful scene is one in which Anne's teacher starts to sob and can no longer write on the chalkboard -- his wife was just taken away to a labor camp. One day, the Franks receive a summons for Anne's sister Margot, and Otto decides that his family will hide. Anne must now leave her home, school, pet, and friends in order to survive The Holocaust.
The Franks offer aid to a few select people -- the Van Pels family (one of which is a young boy a couple of years older than Anne, Peter), and Mr. Pfeffer (a friend of the family), rounding out the whole party to eight people.
We see the time pass in The Annex, and tensions rise amongst the adults. Personalities clash, and mingle as Peter and Anne fall in love. Everything is portrayed very believably as Anne, a naive young girl at first, goes from hating Peter to caring for him very much. Miep and Jans are portrayed as the caring people they were described as being in real life.
Inevitably, the SS arrives for the Frank family based on an anonymous tip. There is a moment where the SS officer spots Otto's trunk and discovers that Otto was an officer for Germany in WWI. The SS officer salutes Otto out of respect and allows Otto more time to pack, inquiring why he didn't register as a veteran so that he could have received preferable treatment. Otto says nothing, but looks at his family ... the meaning is understood. They are forcibly removed from the Annex and sent to a labor camp, where they are treated as criminals because they hid. Anne assists the teacher in the labor camp school by telling stories to the children. In one scene, the teacher gives all the children their report cards before they board a train that is supposedly going to another labor camp. Given the age of these young children, it is inevitable they are headed to an extermination camp ... but the teacher kindly asks them to make sure they give their report cards to their next teacher, to spare the children any fear. A sad scene.
The Franks end up at Auschwitz-Birkenau ... the final stop for many Jews. There, the party of eight is divided forever -- with the men going one way, the women another. Margot and Anne end up at Bergen-Belsen, a camp known for its horrible conditions: filth, squalor, starvation, and sickness. We see Anne suffer, her naive beliefs she held at the beginning gone forever as she witnesses extreme desperation and death. Soon, she herself becomes desperate in order to survive and protect her sister. She learns of her mother's death from Mrs. Van Pels.
At the very end, we see Otto arrive at a Red Cross location, desperate for any news on his family. He is informed by a Bergen-Belsen survivor of their fate. He arrives at the office to inform Miep and gives a description of the destinies of the other occupants of the Annex ... in a voice clearly exhausted with grief and shock. He is the only survivor. At a historical moment, Miep presents him with the pages to Anne's diary ....
The two main characters, really, are Otto and Anne. Pim and Anne adored each other ... and when they are torn out of each other's arms it's the other they cry out for. At the end, Otto's love for Anne is what leads to the diary's being published. And it's a great thing that it was -- it's a piece of art. With all the versions out there of Anne Frank, this is by far the best.
DVD Review: Sad !
Summary: 5 Stars
I had seen the movie, once in highschool. I remember as a young teen being given the Diary of Anne Frank, I read it over and over again. I also watched the movie several times. I am happy to say that I love this movie, it is such a good representation of what would have happened during this time in Anne's life. Its well made and I would be glad to recommend this movie to anyone interested in Anne.DVD Review: Ann Frank, the whole story
Summary: 5 Stars
Superb. A must for anyone interested in the Holocaust, the Frank family, or just wanting to see an intensely humane, moving story. Ben Kingsley and Hannah Taylor Gordon were especially wonderful; she even looks like the real Anne! DVD Review: On a par with Schindler's List
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched the superb documentary on the Frank family and the Dutch resistance by author/director Branaugh called "Anne Frank Remembered" before this and can see how painfully accurate "Anne Frank the Whole Story" really is. Both are highly recommended to be viewed together as they are mutually reinforcing. Having just finished watching this film I am still too impassioned to be balanced, but will try. The acting is great. Anne transforms from an ugly duckling to a cherished princess. Otto Frank becomes the pillar of the world. Miep Gies brings us to our knees in respect for the ultimate womanhood. No loud in-your-face special effects are here; this is a British film in the finest tradition of understated power. Power that will have you jumping up from your seat trying to do anything to help these unfortunate people and their gallant protectors. You will pass through the emotions of sympathy, pathos, futility, anger, and cry to your God to alleviate their suffering and strike down their oppressors. To me, the equal of Schindler's List. Dear Anne was taken from the world at age 15. She wanted to create something lasting. And she did. Her diary has sold 30 million copies and has been translated into 60 languages. Now she lives forever, and those who were with her, in our hearts. Dr. David Bullock, Captain, USAFR, ret.
Description of Anne Frank - The Whole Story
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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