My Best Friend Anne Frank
Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.
- Released: 2021-10-07
- Runtime: 103 minutes
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Stars: Josephine Arendsen, Aiko Beemsterboer, Roeland Fernhout, Lottie Hellingman, Simone Canaris, Stefan de Walle, Adél Jordán, Tünde Szalontay
- Director: Ben Sombogaart
Comments
- alaico - 8 September 2023
Poorly made
Probably the worst film on the topic I've seen. Jumping back and forth in time was genuinely annoying as was the multiple languages in the film. What did one really learn about these families? Not much. This film has the usual portrayal of Nazis screaming at the prisoners. It almost becomes cliche. I was so looking forward to an interview with Hannah in present day at the end of the film, but it never happened.
There are better films out there about Anne Frank and her family. Seek one out. And if you're ever in Amsterdam, you can visit the secret annex where the Franks lived along with friends. - murfwinship - 29 March 2022
Good drama~
Gosh, I cannot believe I've not seen this movie yet on (Netflix). I'm watching half tonight and the other half tomorrow as it is getting late here out west. Hope you all get to see this movie also; it is really interesting so far. I hope to see the "Anne Frank" house in Amsterdam when I get to travel there soon. All my love, Murf. - kosmasp - 11 February 2022
My friendly neighbor
The movie has Anne Frank in the title, but it stars a different person. A friend of hers, who has her own journey and her own struggles ... and her own problems to survive. That being said, that should not deter you from watching this.
Nor the fact that it switches from good times to a harsh reality - which makes viewing this quite the hard task to say the least. Just when you see the girls/friends happy, you get taken away from that and shown concentration camps or other horrible things that (mainly) Jews had to endure back then.
Watching this - one can only hope that comparisons that are being made right now, are going to stop. I do not want to get too political, but when there is a pandemic, you should not compare yourself to people that were actually hunted and had to die for no reason at all - and not being able or having a choice in the matter.
But the movie was not made to be compared to nowadays. It was made to show how cruel or rather how horrible of a time it was back then ... and in that the movie succeeds.
