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Misha and the Wolves

Synopsis

When she was seven, Misha Defonseca escaped the Nazis, crossed Europe on foot, lived with wolves and endured unimaginable hardship in search of her deported parents. Her Holocaust memoir took the world by storm and a Hollywood studio came knocking. But a fallout with her publisher who turned detective, revealed Misha’s story as an audacious deception created to hide an even darker truth.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2021 - World Premiere

Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Features
Running time
90 min
Format
Digital
Director
Sam Hobkinson
Producer
Poppy Dixon, Al Morrow, Mathew Wells Gregory Zalcman, Juergen Buedts
Executive Producer
Torstein Blixfjord, Vesna Cudic, Stewart Le Marechal, Jonny Persey, Aidrian Sibley,
Editor
Peter Norrey
Director of Photography
Will Pugh
Composer
Nick Foster

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Arts Alliance Production, Met Film and Bright Yellow Productions in co-production with Las Belgas and Take Five

c/o Met Film Production,

Ealing Studios, Ealing Green
London W5 5EP

Sales Company

MetFilm Sales

Ealing Studios
Ealing Green
London W5 5EP

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