ABOUT THE MOVIE
Alice calls her mother’s work propaganda, but Zhanna believes that she is working for the good of her homeland. As a foreign correspondent for Russian TV she covers the major events in the Western countries from the Kremlin’s perspective and she wants to make Alice more Russian. So Zhanna decides to show her the biggest country in the world. Over four summers and one winter, mother and daughter travel across the length and breadth of Putin’s Russia. But as their journey unfolds, Zhanna grapples with her past, her secrets, and her identity as both a journalist and a mother—while the country edges closer to a war. A Little Grey Wolf Will Come is a powerful tale of love, lies, and the loss of homeland.
Žana Agalakova
Žana Agalakova (RU/IT) is a noted Russian journalist, special correspondent and television news presenter who resigned from the state-run Channel One broadcaster in protest of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and made a public statement. At the time of her resignation, she was the channel's correspondent in Paris. After leaving Channel One, Agalakova said she believed Russian television was being used to spread Kremlin propaganda and that she wanted Russians to stop allowing themselves to be "zombified" by it. In 2002 she was nominated for the TEFI Award, a Russian television award similar to the Emmys, and was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2006 and the Order of Friendship in 2019. She refused both state awards and sent them back to the Kremlin.
Festivals where the film was screened:
- 2025 Sheffield Doc Fest (Sheffield , GB) First Feature
- 2025 Cinehill (Fužine, HR) main programme
