Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Survivre avec les loups
118 min
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents...
- Release date
- November 21, 2007
- Country of origin
- France
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Cast
- Mathilde Goffart as Misha
- Yaël Abecassis as Gerusha
- Guy Bedos as Jean
- Michèle Bernier as Marthe
- Benno Fürmann as Reuven
- Anne-Marie Philipe as Mme Valle
- Franck de la Personne as M. Valle
- Marie Kremer as Janine
- Holger Bonrath
- Patrick Chevalier
- Fanny Deprelle
Crew
- Véra Belmont · Director
- Misha Defonseca · Writer
- Véra Belmont · Writer
- Gérard Mordillat · Writer
- Véra Belmont · Producer
- Émilie Simon · Composer
- Pierre Cottereau · Cinematographer
- Martine Giordano · Editor
- Kadija Leclere · Casting director
- Aurélien Geneix · Production designer
- Anette Reuther · Production designer