Anne Frank - The Whole Story

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Summary: SHOULD BE 6 STARS!
Review: This is definitely the best Anne Frank movie ever made, and possibly the best Holocasut film too. Believe it and watch it-you will be moved and it will haunt you and make you think about how precious life is.

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Summary: The Best Anne Frank Movie!
Review: I watched this movie in the two-parter mini-series on TV a couple of years ago, and I thought it was wonderful. Most of the actors and actresses looked a lot like the real-life Frank family and the others (Dr. Dussell, Henk, Miep, and the others), and all are great on their parts. The second part of the movie is sort of brutal but that is what real life in the Holocaust was like.
The actor who played Otto Frank said his words exactly what would the real Otto would say, such as the way he said to Meip about his two daughters when he found out they passed away. The actress who played Miep Gies did wonderful as well.
I think this movie should win an award or something if they haven't already....it's a tearjerker and entertaining as well. It's worth it to buy this movie because it is THAT good.

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Summary: Picks up where other versions left off.
Review: Hands down the best screen version of Anne Frank's diary I have ever seen. While other versions terminate at the secret annex's inhabitants' discovery by the Nazis, this one trudges on to Anne's last days in Belsen and Otto's consuming grief at the loss of his family.For those who may not know Anne Frank's tale, here it is: Anne Frank was a normal, high-spirited young girl who had the immense misfortune to be Jewish during the Nazi occupation of Holland. A budding writer, her parents gave her a diary for her 13th birthday. At the diary's beginnings, Anne annotated what is the normal life of a young girl: boyfriends, puppy love, best friends, movies, books, and family. But a month after her birthday, the diary took on a somber tone. Several months earlier, the Nazis had begun to round up Jews in Anne's home city of Amsterdam and send them to horrible extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, etc. Otto Frank, determined to keep himself and his family out of the Nazis' clutches, spirited them away from their home and into hiding. The chosen place was a hidden set of rooms located in the rear of his office building. Anne called it the secret annex, and for the two years she and her family -- along with the Van Pels family and a dentist named Fritz Pfeffer -- hid there, she composed a written account of life in hiding. She spared no detail in her descriptions of rations, shortages of goods, war news, the grumpiness she and the others experienced at being confined in such close quarters, her growing affection for Peter Van Pels, and the constant fear of discovery and death. Office workers Miep Gies, Bep Voskuijl, Mr. Kleinman, and Mr. Kugler were the annex inhabitants' only link to the outside world. Miep especially took risks to ensure that they were fed, cared for, and received news of events in the world outside their cramped lodging. They longed for the day the Allies would invade and liberate Europe, which would mean freedom at last from the secret annex.Tragically, Anne and the others had their worst fear realized when the Nazis penetrated the secret annex and dragged them away to various concentration camps. Only Otto survived, and he published Anne's diary a few years after the war.This movie is exactly as I envisioned the story the diary tells. Even the characters are how I pictured they'd look as I read the diary. Also, the accuracy and authenticity are very good.

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Summary: REAL LIFE
Review: I really liked this film because it brang to life the diary of Ann frank and made you imagen how bad the Germans where to Jews. eithen thought this film was sad what made it sadder was that it was a true story, also that if they would have stayed alive a little longer then thay would have survied...

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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This movie was just Amazing!Much much better than the old version plus has much more detail of her life. Beautiful story, and superb acting.

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Summary: A real tear jerker
Review: This movie is amazing. It tells the story of a girl who I think every person in America should be familar with. If you think you're down and out, watch this movie. It'll jerk you back to reality

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Summary: Excellent, realistic, much better than the other versions!
Review: Anne Frank, the Whole Story stars Ben Kinsley as Otto Frank and Hannah Taylor-Gordon as Anne. This 180 minute Israeli production starts out in Amsterdam just before WWII starts. Hannah does bear a striking resemblance to Anne...you do have to overlook her obvious Britishness. The beginning starts out in a tame atmosphere, so if you know the story you may be a bit bored with the everydayness of Anne's depiction pre-Annex.

And considering the striving for authenticity Mr. van Pels (Joachim Król) makes a couple jokes that were English language puns, i.e. they don't work in Dutch.

But when the Franks go into hiding we begin to get engrossed. We are shown the empty annex (as it stills looks today) and soon we are seeing the story through Kingsley's eyes. And life in the Annex is given a realism where the people get on your nerves as well as Anne's. Lili Taylor does a great job as Miep Gies, the helper who saves the diary.

And we are shown exactly how they are betrayed, and what happens afterwards. A segment at Westerbork Transit camp, then Auschwitz, then Bergen-Belsen, all very accurate and harrowing in depiction. Importantly we are shown what actually happened to Anne, and Kingsley's quiet sense of loss really forces empathy.

At the end we are given text which shows what happened to each person in the Annex, and it says "Aside from the Bible, Anne's Diary is the world's most widely read work of nonfiction". Well, I guess noone had the guts to bring up to the producers that the Bible is a work of fiction (unless you believe in Adam and Eve, Moses, 7 day creation, etc.)

This is by far the best version of Anne Frank's story on film.
The 1959 one is good as the first major film ever to address the Holocaust (albeit indirectly), the 1980 Melissa Gilbert one was pathetic, so see this one and the documentaries.

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Summary: A teacher's point of view
Review: This is absolutely the best of the Anne Frank movies for students. First of all, it is not boring-the acting and script are very well done. Secondly, it goes beyond just what happened when Anne and her family were in hiding. Since the diary stopped there, most stories stop there too. It gives the students the rest of the story so they realize that going into hiding was not the bad part of the story. The scenes at the concentration camps are disturbing but not gruesome. Appropriate for middle or high school.

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Summary: terrific!
Review: i made a point of catching this movie when it was run for the first time on abc, and i was blown away.
the movie is truly beautiful. it does a fantastic job of conveying Anne in a very relatable manner - she's not just some anonymous victim... she was a real person before, during, and after her time in the secret annex.
the latter stages of the movie are heartbreaking. i found myself in tears as the movie ended and again in some days afterwards when my thoughts turned to the horrific things that were done to Anne in the concentration camps. her spirit was broken.
all in all a delightful, powerful movie. the dvd contains just the movie, but i don't think that anything else is needed in this case. recommended to watch again and again.

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Summary: The First Time I ever cried during a movie
Review: I am not a crier. I only cry when something pierces me so hard that it forces the tears out. But even this did not pierce me. It stabbed me. I have been researching the Holocaust since I was nine years old. I have read every book there is on it. Watched so many movies on it. But I always had a feeling for Anne Frank. I read her Diary and all that, watched movies on her, so when I saw that a miniseries was coming on on ABC I was pretty excited. Since we don't get ABC my Grandmother taped it for me. Then the next day my Mom, my cousin and I sat down to watch it. The First part was great for me not a single tear but then came day two. When Anne was wrenched out her "Pim's" arms it was too much. The tears came and didn't stop till the Conventration camp was over. It was the very first time I ever cried during a movie. Hannah Taylor Gordon looked so much like Anne that I had to remind myself that the real Anne was dead. Lili Taylor was awsome as Meip Gies the main helper of the Frank Family. Jessica Blanaly as Margot just makes Anne's character shine even more. I think she deserves way more credit then she got. And all the rest of the Characters shine also. Because of the very Graphic images I don't recomend this movie for anybody under 11. But if you are over I strongly recomend this movie. To help us remember to never let this wretched thing happen again.