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Surviving With Wolves (Rated PG)

Original Title: Survivre avec les loups

Country of Origin: France / Germany / Belgium (2008)
French with English Subtitles - 118 minutes
Genre: Drama
Distributor: BAC Films

Directed by Véra Belmont

Starring   Mathilde Goffart (Misha), Yaël Abecassis (Gerusha), Guy Bedos (Jean), Michèle Bernier (Marthe), Benno Fürmann (Reuven), Anne-Marie Philipe (Mrs. Valle), Franck de la Personne (Mr. Valle), Marie Kremer (Janine), Paul Emile Petre (Léopold), Georges Siatidis (The doctor)...

Misha, an 8 year-old Jewish girl, is looking for her parents captured by the Nazis. All she knows is that she has to go East to find them. Armed with a small compass, Misha embarks in an odyssey from her native Belgium to Ukraine walking through the forests of Germany and Poland with a pack of wolves that "adopted her".

To survive she has to steal and hunt with the wolves. Misha's animal instincts save her from the traps the Nazi soldiers use to catch the runaways.

Originally marketed as inspired by the true autobiographical novel by Misha Defonseca, the film became controversial when the author claimed that her story was fictional

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Awards

2008 Istanbul - Festival International du Film Selection films français hors compétition

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Saturday, April 4 at 10:00PM

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(2008 - 98 min.)
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Surviving With Wolves

Sunday, April 5, 2009
at 1:00PM

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Lady Jane

(2008 - 102 min.)
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