A woman’s Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
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Misha Defonseca
Self
Director
Sam Hobkinson
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Production
APT Film and Television, Arts Alliance Productions, Bright Yellow Films, Met Film Production, Take Five, Las Belgas, BBC Storyville, VPRO, ZDF/Arte, Shelter Prod
CinemaSerf
March 27, 2022
This is actually quite a fascinating tale that illustrates just how much we take on face value. It's a story of a woman who claimed to have escaped from the Nazis at the end of WWII, with the help of some wild wolves. She makes it safely to the USA whereupon a local radio station and subsequently a local publisher encourage her to tell her heart-rending story. A few fallings-out and court hearings...
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