“Your next documentary obsession.”
Misha and the Wolves
by Sam Hobkinson • 2021 • 89’ • UK
Credits
Director:
Sam Hobkinson
Producers:
Poppy Dixon, Al Morrow, Matt Wells, Jurgen Buendts, Gregory Zalcman
Executive Producers:
Stewart le Maréchal, Thomas Hoegh, Vesna Cudic, Jonny Persey, Adrian Sibley, Mandy Chang, Hayley Reynolds, Martin Pieper, Barbara Truyen
MISHA AND THE WOLVES is the dramatic tale of a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, before a fallout with her publisher — who turned detective — revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
Awards & Festivals
Outstanding Direction [Nominee]
— TV & Documentary Emmy Award 2022
Sundance 2021 [World Premiere]
Hot Docs 2021
The William & Mary Global Film Festival 2021
Cleveland International Film Festival 2021
Annapolis Film Festival 2021
CPH:DOX 2021
Sarasota Film Festival 2021
Milwaukee Film Festival 2021
River Run International Film Festival 2021
DocEdge 2021
DocVille 2021
Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2021
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2021
Sundance London 2021
Docu.text Festival 2021
Geneva Jewish Film Festival 2021
Valladolid IFF – Semici 2021
Stockholm International Film Festival 2021
Press
“Extraordinary… few things are as pleasurable in movies as having the rug pulled out from under you.”
— Variety
“Unfolds with the page-turning urgency of a great detective mystery.”
— Screen International
“Your next documentary obsession… a roller-coaster ride of truth, imagination and storytelling.”
— USA Today
“Something like a documentary ‘Inception’ with a story inside of a tale that is itself part of a narrative.”
— The Playlist
Filmmaker’s Biography
Sam Hobkinson has written and directed a broad range of documentary and drama for the small and big screen. His most recent project was FEAR CITY a Netflix Original Documentary series about the struggle between the Mafia and the FBI in 1980s New York. It became the #1 Netflix show in the US, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. His feature film with conceptual artist Damien Hirst: TREASURES FROM THE WRECK OF THE UNBELIEVABLE — in common with MISHA AND THE WOLVES — explored how and why we believe the stories we are told. Among other accolades, he has twice been recipient of the Grierson British Documentary Award: in 2007 for WHO CARES ABOUT ART, a film about the life changing effects that works of art have on those who spend most time around them — the gallery guards, cleaners, and caretakers; and in 2012 for THE LOVE OF BOOKS: A SARAJEVO STORY — the dramatic and moving tale of a group of book lovers who risked their lives to save a priceless collection of Islamic manuscripts during the Siege of Sarajevo. He was the writer and director of experimental BBC period dramas MR LOVEDAY’S LITTLE OUTING and WHO KILLED MRS DE ROPP. His documentary work has varied from landmark arts series such as VENICE for the BBC, to war-zone documentaries and testimony-led films such as the feature length film THE HUNT FOR THE BOSTON BOMBERS, which won the RealScreen Award.
