Netflix’s “My Best Friend Anne Frank”, the portrait of the Jewish girl through the eyes of her friend

Over the years, the story of Anne Frank has been brought to the big and small screen through many films and series, usually telling the perspective of the famous diary she wrote while in hiding during World War II. Netflix’s “My Best Friend Anne Frank”gives a different twist to her life, told from the point of view of one of her best friends in this period.

While many productions have made it to film and television, the story of “The Diary of Anne Frank”, written by herself; “My Best Friend Anne Frank” is based on “Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend”, the book written by Alison Leslie Gold. This novel is based on the memories of the best friend of the German and Jewish girl, Hanneli Goslar.

In addition to the fact that this film becomes a new project about the life of the 14-year-old girl who hid from the Nazi army for two years and wrote a diary about it, it is important because it is the first film born in Germany that talks about her. ; since, until then, no production that spoke of her life came from this country.

An external look at the life of Anne Frank

‘My Best Friend, Anne Frank’ allows us to see a different vision from the one that the girl herself created in her diary and which then spread around the world both in reproductions of her book and in film and television adaptations. Furthermore, it is not just any perspective, but that of HannelI Goslar, her best friend during the Second World War.

In this very different version, the friendship between Anne Frank and Hannel Goslar is known in depth, played by Aiko Beemsterboer and Josephine Arendsen respectively. They had been friends since school and unfortunately faced Nazi Germany together, as they were even detained in the same Berge-Belsen concentration camp.

On the other hand, ‘My Best Friend Anne Frank’ becomes a key story in the life of this famous girl, precisely because Hannel Goslar was one of the last people to see her alive; she after her, unfortunately, she became one of the victims of the holocaust.

Currently, “My Best Friend Anne Frank” is the only film based on real events that tells the story of Anne Frank and is available in the Netflix catalog. Although, on the other hand, the streaming platform also has the documentary “Discovering Anna Frank: Parallel Stories”, which seeks to investigate more about her life and her final years in this world.