Anne Frank: The Whole Story

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
Production
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	ABC
Release	May 20 (2001-05-20) – May 21, 2001 (2001-05-21)
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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.