{"id":22153,"date":"2021-01-05T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/?post_type=film&p=22153"},"modified":"2021-12-26T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-26T19:51:09","slug":"misha","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/santafefilmfestival.com\/index\/film\/misha\/","title":{"rendered":"Misha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The tragic story about the greatest football(soccer) player that most have never heard of. Mikhail “Misha” An was the descendants of the Koryo Saram, Koreans living in the Russian Far East, who were forcible removed by Joseph Stalin and persecuted during war times. They went through many obstacles, but through perseverance they were able to fight through and be accepted. Misha went through a similar journey. Labeled too small to play, he had to work harder to be able to compete with other players, but ultimately he was able to achieve success as he was selected captain of his club team and selected to this Soviet National Team. But August 11, 1979 \u2013 who unknowingly sealed An\u2019s fate. Mikhail never liked flying. He almost didn\u2019t take the fateful flight. That day, Leonid Brezhnev\u2019s flight path was ordered cleared of all commercial flights \u2013 leaving the other routes dangerously over-crowded. His plane was involved in a mid-air collision with another plane. Everyone on the plane perished on that fateful day.<\/p>\n

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Director Biography –\u00a0Brian Song<\/span><\/h4>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Brian Song was born in Philadelphia and is a proud graduate of Florida State University. Brian has worked primarily as a producer in the commercial world, producing spots for P & G, Tesla, Robin Wright, Garnier, Ralph Lauren, and many more. His first project as a director is titled “Misha” the tragic story of the greatest soccer player that you’ve never heard of. He likes to explore Korean Diaspora themes and stories and his next project in the cue is about Japanese\/Korean baseball great Isao Harimoto, the ONLY professional baseball player to survive the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. He is the Executive Producer of his own production company called Good One, Inc. www.goodoneinc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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