My Best Friend Anne Frank

A beautiful film about the friendship between Anne Frank and her friend Hannah. Do not care what others have voted down about the film, it is touching and sensitive and it will be difficult to keep the tears away.

Emotional and authentic film, definitely worth seeing!

In her world-wide famous diary ,Anne Frank adressed to an imaginary friend she called Kitty ; in real life ,she had a true friend Hannah; the film depicts the deeply moving story of their friendship, which ,in spite of Anne's death ,survived ;"she's still my best friend " says Hannah,still alive in 2022 at 93.

Alternating scenes in occupied Netherlands and in the concentration camp ,the movie is never boring,as an user wrote .Although they came from well-to-do families ,chiefly Anne, they suffered the same humiliations as their coreligionists : the infamous yellow star (which was not the Nazi's invention:in the thirteenth century ,French king Louis IX aka Saint louis forced the Jews to wear the "rouelle "(a badge with a small wheel on it) ,the places forbidden to the Jews, the brutality and the contempt of the German soldiers ("it stinks over here") , the Jews were hardly allowed to breathe ;someone wrote that the movie was too nice : the way the Nazi officer treats the pregnant woman,nice? The propaganda movies telling the Dutch they were betrayed by their allies and deprived of their dairy products ? The soldiers forcing their way into the houses ,at any time of day or night?

And still, in this nightmarish world,hope against hope did survive ;Anna would dream of Hollywood , she would be famous ;A Florence Nightingale 's admirer ,Hannah wanted to be a nurse. In the end, both had their vow..

Anne Frank meant as much as her own family to Hannah ;when the former disappeared , she did believe that her friend had fled to Switzerland where she was skiing .This makes their brief reunion all the more poignant .Meeting your dearest friend in hell ,is there something worse?

Both actresses give restrained moving performance :Aiko Beemsterboer 's ressemblance between her and her character are striking ,much more than Millie Perkins' in George Stevens' version (1959)The rapport she has with her co-star Josephine Arendsen gives the movie its outstanding emotional strength.

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.

The movie was really good..... for what I could understand. I wish at the very least the subtitles were on and correct. Three were moments when there wasn't voice over or subtitles so guessing by body language you may figure it out. If you want to reach a wider audience I suggest at the very least have subtitles. Kind of frustrating.

This film tells an honest story about two best friends during the Second World War in the Netherlands. The film is told through the eyes of Hannah, Anne Frank's best friend. You see two teenagers who try to hold their own under sometimes difficult circumstances. It is a film that does not make us forget what happens when one group oppresses another. An absolute must see.