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Ben Kingsley, Tatjana Blacher, and Hannah Taylor Gordon in Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001)

Ben Kingsley: Otto Frank

Anne Frank: The Whole Story

Ben Kingsley credited as playing...

Otto Frank

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  • Auguste Rottgen-van Pels: Oh please, Kerli, just one more dance!
  • Hermann van Pels: Oh sit down please Putti, before you make a fool of yourself!
  • Auguste Rottgen-van Pels: Surely you wouldn't refuse a lady's invitation Mr Frank?
  • Otto Frank: Well, Mrs. van Pels, it seems you have a rival at the moment.
  • Otto Frank: Mademoislle?
  • Anne Frank: Charmed.
  • Edith Frank: Anne! Come out of the water.
  • Edith Frank: [Anne does nothing] Otto, say something.
  • Otto Frank: Anne, do as your mother says.
  • [Otto goes back to his paper as if nothing happened]
  • Hans Goslar: [In Hitler costume] Why was I not invited to this party?
  • Anne Frank: [Momentary silence] -It's Mr. Goslar! Look, it's your dad!
  • Hans Goslar: [to Otto] You see? And you told me he'd never come to Holland. Happy birthday, Anne.
  • Anne Frank: We must have a picture! A picture, please.
  • Hannah 'Hannalei' Goslar: Yes, Daddy, a picture!
  • Otto Frank: A picture of Adolf as your birthday present?
  • [Winds camera]
  • Otto Frank: The girls and Uncle Adolf.
  • Hermann van Pels: The Jew traitors here are worse than the Nazis, saving their own skins.
  • Otto Frank: In their place you'd do something different?
  • Otto Frank: Good people and bad people have one thing in common. They both make mistakes. Only, - good people can admit their mistakes and learn from them.
  • [last lines]
  • Otto Frank: Miep - Margot and Anne are not coming back.
  • Title card: In 1957 Otto Frank established the Anne Frank Foundation, working to educate young people against intolerance and discrimination. - He died in 1980 at the age of 91.
  • Title card: It is believed that Anne Frank died of typhus within days of her sister Margot - two of the 17,000 people who perished of disease at Bergen-Belsen in March, 1945.
  • Title card: British troops liberated the camp two weeks later.
  • [...]
  • Title card: "The Diary of Anne Frank" has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 60 languages. After the Bible, it is the most widely read non-fiction book in the world.
  • Title card: One and a half million children were murdered in the genocide the Nazis called "The Final Solution".
  • Title card: Anne Frank's story is only one of them.
  • Anne Frank: I hate them. The Germans. I wish they were dead. They won't stop until they've killed all the Jews!
  • Otto Frank: Don't say that. There are good people and there are bad people, it doesn't matter where they come from. Miep and Mr. Klieman are Austrian, just like Hitler. Do you want them to die as well?
  • Anne Frank: No.
  • Otto Frank: And don't forget, We are German.
  • Anne Frank: No, we're Dutch aren't we Margot?
  • Margot Frank: Of course we are.
  • Anne Frank: I don't want to be German. Not ever.

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