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Surviving with Wolves

Original title: Survivre avec les loups

  • Movie
  • 2007
  • 1h 58m

Directed by Véra Belmont

6.3

TMDB audience rating
6.3 out of 10 from 83 votes

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Overview

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...

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Cast and crew

  • Mathilde Goffart

    Mathilde GoffartMisha

  • Yaël Abecassis

    Yaël AbecassisGerusha

  • Guy Bedos

    Guy BedosJean

  • Michèle Bernier

    Michèle BernierMarthe

  • Benno Fürmann

    Benno FürmannReuven

  • Anne-Marie PhilipeMadame Valle

  • Franck de la Personne

    Franck de la PersonneM. Valle

  • Marie Kremer

    Marie KremerJanine

Director
Véra Belmont
Writer
Véra Belmont and Misha Defonseca
Music
Émilie Simon
Cinematography
Pierre Cottereau