PREVIEW: Misha and the Wolves (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

(as themselves) Misha Defonseca

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Sam Hobkinson (The Kleptocrats), director, writer; Jurgen Buedts (Harry Gruyaert – Photographer), Poppy Dixon (Silk Road: Drugs, Death and the Dark Web), Al Morrow (The Reason I Jump), Matt Wells (film debut) and Gregory Zalcman (Hudud), producers; Nick Foster (film debut), composer; Will Pugh (Rising Phoenix), cinematographer; Peter Norrey (Dying Laughing), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Author Misha Defonseca publishes her memoir, which recalls her experiences of the Holocaust, and is an overnight success across the world. However, a fallout with her publisher inspires the latter to turn detective, and reveal that the book may have been fabricated to conceal a much darker truth…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The truth is stranger than fiction in this shocking documentary about the rise and fall of acclaimed writer Misha Defonseca, and the controversy surrounding her “memoir” about living through the Holocaust.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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