Surviving with wolves
Francia / 2007 / 90 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Misha's family is Jewish, and because of the Nazi persecutions is forced to take raguge in the Ardennes. During a round-up Misha's parents are captured but succeed in saving their daughter who is taken in as a scullery maid by a Catholic Family near Brussels. Badly treated and humiliated, with a burning desire to see her parents again and the knowledge that they were deported to Eastern Europe, Misha flees and embarks on a interminable voyage along the German plains, finally reaching Poland and Ukraine with the help of a compass and in the company of a pack of wolves. A transposition of the eponymous novel by Misha Defonseca, the film is a fairy tale in which the wolves are divided, metaphorically, into good (those who live in the forest and help Misha) and bad ( the Nazi wolves). By hiding in the woods, crawling on all fours, climbing trees, and rolling in the leaves, Misha seems to want to flee from the true monster: the human one. This is the tale of the ferocity of man and the humanity of animals.
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Language Italian Subject Véra BelmontScreenplay Véera Belmont, Gerard MordillatCinematography Pierre CottereauSound Henri Morelle, Xavier PiroelleEditing Martine GiordanoMusic Émilie SimonProducer Linda GutenbergProduction company Stephan Film Les Aventuriers de l'Image
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