Wendy Ide 

Misha and the Wolves review – a stranger-than-fiction exposé

A bestselling Holocaust memoir is revealed to be a fraud in an intriguing doc that fails to hold the author accountable
  
  

Misha Defonseca.
Mystery… Misha Defonseca. Photograph: Netflix

This intriguing but slightly manipulative documentary guides us through the stranger-than-fiction story of a bestselling Holocaust memoirist who was revealed, by her own former publisher, to be a fantasist and a fraud. A puzzle box of a structure reveals fresh angles to the story with each new contributor, but the woman at its core – the discredited author Misha Defonseca – remains silent and unaccountable, to the film’s detriment.

Watch a trailer for Misha and the Wolves.
 

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