"My Friend Anne Frank" Heads to Big Screen

There’s a bunch of Nazi-related films out right now, which is interesting. Now a memoir by Jacqueline Van Maarsen, described as Anne Frank’s best friend Jopie in “The Diary of Anne Frank,” is being adapted into a feature film.

Apparently, Maarsen went to school with Frank and spoke with her father Otto after World War II. The film’s plot will follow the young friends’ separate internments in concentration camps.

The film will be directed by Alberto Negrin, who helmed the Italian biopic “Perlasca,” based on the man who posed as a Spanish official to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazis.

Image: Alberto Negrin, Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man, Castle Hill Productions, Inc., 2002