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  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 30 m
Misha and the Wolves

Summary A young orphaned girl survives the Holocaust by fleeing her home in search of her parents, escaping Nazis by sticking to the woods and living with wolves. Author Misha Defonseca’s story is an incredible one, and not just because of the wolves. Her memoir took the world by storm, but fallout with her publisher-turned-detective exposes the...

Directed By: Sam Hobkinson

Written By: Sam Hobkinson

  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2021
  • PG-13
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 30 m

Misha and the Wolves

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
63
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
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Summary A young orphaned girl survives the Holocaust by fleeing her home in search of her parents, escaping Nazis by sticking to the woods and living with wolves. Author Misha Defonseca’s story is an incredible one, and not just because of the wolves. Her memoir took the world by storm, but fallout with her publisher-turned-detective exposes the...

Directed By: Sam Hobkinson

Written By: Sam Hobkinson

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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50% Mixed
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86
Aug 23, 2021
Misha and the Wolves is as much a documentary as it is a wrestling match: filmmaker versus subject, truth versus fiction. Ultimately, the viewer comes out the winner.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 3, 2021
Despite a few narrative gaps that needed filling, Sam Hobkinson delivers a rollercoaster-ride of a documentary with superb characters, insightful talking heads and jaw-dropping plot twists.
By Hanna Flint FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 2, 2021
The combination of archive footage, fresh interviews and extensive dramatic reconstructions is tightly edited. Hobinkson makes the most of a hugely involving story and a collection of fascinating individuals.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 5, 2021
A puzzle box of a structure reveals fresh angles to the story with each new contributor, but the woman at its core – the discredited author Misha Defonseca – remains silent and unaccountable, to the film’s detriment.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 2, 2021
It’s propulsively watchable if a tad light on reflection. And you may feel hoodwinked by one late reveal.
By Cath Clarke FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 2, 2021
Misha's actual story is fascinating in its own way, but within the relative levity of Hobkinson's framework, her truth and trauma get lost in a detective yarn. The film lacks the heft to adequately explain the nuance of Misha's truth
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW
42
Feb 2, 2021
Exploiting now-familiar techniques of documentary misdirection in the service of easy suspense, Misha and the Wolves wastes a golden opportunity to interrogate the slippery nature of historical truth (and a Herzog-worthy heroine along with it), opting instead to spin a self-satisfied yarn that offers little insight into anything beyond our natural tendency to believe the most ecstatic truths.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
6.3
57% Positive
4 Ratings
29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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57% Positive
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29% Mixed
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14% Negative
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Production Company APT Film and Television, Arts Alliance Productions, Arts Alliance, Bright Yellow Films, Las Belgas, MetFilm Production, Take Five
Release Date Aug 11, 2021
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
DocAviv Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Docville
• 1 Nomination

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