Misha and the Wolves
classified 12A“Unfolds with the page-turning urgency of a great detective mystery.” – Screen International
This extraordinary, twisty documentary narrates the dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher reveals a hidden, dark truth.
In the early 1990s, Misha Defonseca broke a 50-year long silence as she sheds light on her terrible experiences as a young girl during the Holocaust, and a local publisher persuaded her to write a memoir. When Misha’s tale gains traction, becoming an international best seller with interest from Oprah and Disney, the cracks in her story come to light and the mystery starts to unravel…
Director Sam Hobkinson brings a fresh understanding of a tale about truth and lies, history and imagination and how and why we believe the stories we’re told.