Survivre Avec les Loups” and attracted the attention of Disney and Oprah Winfrey. Defonseca had tears in her eyes on talk shows and gave inspiring speeches to stunned students across Europe.
Every word of her story was a lie.A shocking new documentary called “Misha and the Wolves,” which premiered Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival and screens again on Tuesday, compellingly explains how Defonseca was revealed to be a fraudster after years of peddling her bunk history. (On Monday, it was reported that Netflix had acquired the global streaming rights to the film.) Director Sam Hobkinson’s film is a cautionary tale about how people’s willingness to believe a sympathetic fabulist, and even cash in on it, led to an offensive worldwide.
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