Plot
Anne Frank: The Whole Story is a two-part mini-series based on the book Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Müller. The mini-series aired on ABC on May 20 and 21, 2001. The series starred Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Lili Taylor. Controversially, but in keeping with the claim made by Melissa Müller, the series asserts that the anonymous betrayer of the Frank family was the office cleaner, when in fact the betrayer's identity has never been established. A disagreement between the producers of the mini-series and the Anne Frank Foundation about 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 production. Hannah Taylor-Gordon received both Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Anne Frank, while Ben Kingsley won a Screen Actor's Guild Award for his performance as Otto Frank, Anne's father.
Cast
as Otto Frank
as Anne Frank
as Edith Hollander-Frank
as Auguste Rottgen-van Pels
as Margot Frank
as Miep Gies
as Hermann van Pels
as Fritz Pfeffer
as Lammert Hartog
as Johannes Kleiman
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
May 20, 2001
Last Aired Date
May 21, 2001
Production Companies
Touchstone Television
Milk & Honey Pictures
Dorothy Pictures
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
2
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