Miniseries · BBC One
The Diary of Anne Frank
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Ellie Kendrick
Anne Frank
5 eps
Kate Ashfield
Miep Gies
5 eps
Iain Glen
Otto Frank
5 eps
Tamsin Greig
Edith Hollander-Frank
5 eps
Felicity Jones
Margot Frank
5 eps
Geoffrey Breton
Peter van Daan
5 eps
Ron Cook
Hermann Van Daan
5 eps
Lesley Sharp
Petronella Van Daan
5 eps
Nicholas Farrell
Albert Dussel
5 eps
Tim Dantay
Mr Kugler
5 eps
Roger Frost
Mr Kleiman
5 eps
Mariah Gale
Bep Voskuijl
4 eps
Robert Morgan
SS Silberbauer
1 eps
Greg Bennett
Workman (uncredited)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Diary of Anne Frank actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Diary of Anne Frank reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Serialized.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Elinor DayProducer
Writing
- Deborah MoggachWriter
Direction
- Jon JonesDirector
Cinematography
- Ian MossDirector of Photography
Music
- Charlie MoleOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
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