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THE BOY IN THE WOODS

By Rebecca SNOW

TWELVE OAKS PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Biography - Completed 2022

The remarkable TRUE survival story of a Jewish boy hiding in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during WWII. Based on the best-selling memoir THE BOY IN THE WOODS by Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning feature documentary CHEATING HITLER by Rebecca Snow.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Biography, Historical, Drama
- Countries
- USA, CANADA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Rebecca SNOW
- Writer(s)
- Rebecca SNOW
- Cast
- Jett KLYNE
- Producer(s)
- Robert BUDREAU (Lumanity Productions), Jonathan BRONFMAN, Andrew BRONFMAN
- Synopsis
- THE BOY IN THE WOODS follows the true story of Max (Jett Klyne), a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with a Christian peasant Jasko (Richard Armitage) who hides him in plain site until a tense stand-off with some Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life, Jasko sends Max to live in the woods where he learns to survive alone.
  
  With echoes of a Grimm's Fairy Tale, Max's experience is both terrifying and magical. He inhabits a landscape crawling with Jew-hunters, partisans and haunted by ghosts. Then everything changes when he meets another boy in hiding, Yanek (David Kohlsmith). Their extraordinary adventure culminates in the heroic rescue of a baby girl, but it comes at a tragic price. Based on the best-selling memoir by Canadian Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart and inspired by the award-winning documentary Cheating Hitler: Surviving The Holocaust.