Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Anne Frank The Whole Story is a twopart miniseries based on the book Anne Frank The Biography by Melissa Mller. The miniseries aired on ABC on Mayand 21, 2001. The series starred Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn, Hannah TaylorGordon, and Lili Taylor. Controversially, but in keeping with the claim made by Melissa Mller, the series asserts that the anonymous betrayer of the Frank family was the office cleaner, when in fact the betrayers identity has never been established. A disagreement between the producers of the miniseries 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 TaylorGordon received both Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Anne Frank, while Ben Kingsley won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as Otto Frank, Annes father.

A few weeks later, on a normal Sunday in July 1942, Margot Jessica Manley, Annes sister, receives a callup from the Germans to be deported to a labor camp in the East. Otto Frank Ben Kingsley moves his family into the nowrenowned Secret Annex, followed soon by Hermann and Auguste van Pels Joachim Krol and Brenda Blethyn, their son Peter Nicholas Audsley, and Fritz Pfeffer Jan Niklas, the Frank familys dentist. During their stay in the annex, the Van Pels family members are noted for their constant bickering. Fritz becomes Annes antagonist, and Anne has her first serious relationship with Peter, from whom she receives her first kiss. All the while, she wishes for an end to the war. Anne also gets her first period while in the annex an occasion that she had been anxiously awaiting. One night a thief breaks into the building below the annex, leaving the eight refugees in terror.Eventually, on August 4, 1944, the Franks are denounced by Lena Hartog Veronica NowagJones, the cleaning lady of the business in which the annex resides. The eight people in the hiding are arrested and Annes diary is dumped onto the floor while SS man Karl Silberbauer searches for hoarded money. Two of the helpers of those in the Secret Annex are also arrested. In conversation with Otto, Silberbauer is stunned to learn that he served as an officer in the Imperial German Army during World War I. Silberbauer laments that, if they had not gone into hiding, Otto and his family would have received decent treatment. ........

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