The credits underline the tin ear of the whole endeavor by declaring that Anne "became what she wanted: world-famous."

[My Best Friend Anne Frank] is bold in ways I didn’t expect it to be. It’s inspiring in the ways I knew it would be but cried over anyway...It’s wholly worthy an addition to the canon of not just Holocaust stories but Jewish stories altogether.

The movie is inspired by the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar. And while it’s a mostly fictional account, Sombogaart approaches the subject with sincerity and sensitivity.

Fascism is not a relic of the past, but a threat to humanity as long as the working class does not do away with capitalism.