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When she heard the news story of the 13 siblings allegedly held captive in their California home by their parents, Susanne Reisenbichler’s said her first reaction was, “Oh no. Somebody else.”

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Reisenbichler and her sons Govinda Angulo and Josef Reisenbichler said hearing the reports on the Turpin siblings brought back memories of what they experienced while being confined to a cramped New York City apartment until just a few years ago.

The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said 13 siblings — ages 2 to 29 — were allegedly being held captive at their home in Perris, California, by their parents David and Louis Turpin. When discovered, several of the children were “shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings,” the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities were alerted to the situation when a 17-year-old girl, who apparently escaped from the home, called 911 and said her 12 brothers and sisters were still being held captive there, the sheriff’s office said.

The parents David Turpin, 57, and Louise Turpin, 49, have each been charged with 12 counts of torture, 12 counts of false imprisonment, seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult and six counts of child abuse. David Turpin was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force, fear or duress. They have pleaded not guilty.

“I was horrified, and beyond that, it brought just a flood of emotions and memories and thoughts of my own experience and my children’s experience,” Reisenbichler told ABC News’ “20/20.” “It really was more than shocking. It was just so many emotions at once: a lot of compassion and empathy and also understanding and knowing exactly what they went through, what those children were feeling.”

Susanne Reisenbichler says since the documentary “The Wolfpack” was released she’s been working on her memoir and writing children’s books.

“It definitely struck a lot of chords throughout the years since that story has been told from our family. I’ve done what I can to put it away, but it’s brought back a lot of memories,” Govina Angulo, now 25, told “20/20.”

For more than a decade, Reisenbichler shared an apartment with her now-estranged husband Oscar Angulo, her oldest child and only daughter Visnu and her sons Govinda, his twin Narayana (who now goes by Josef), Mukunda, Bhagavan, Krsna (who now goes by Glenn) and Jagadesh (who now goes by Eddie).

Oscar Angulo, a Hare Krishna devotee from Peru, forbade his children and wife from leaving their apartment and held the front door’s only key. Aside from the few trips outside allowed for appointments or strictly controlled visits to New York tourist destinations, the children had no contact with the outside world.

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Twin bothers Govinda Angulo and Josef Reisenbichler reflected on their life since leaving the small New York City apartment they were confined to for over a decade.

“Our father was pretty paranoid about a lot of things,” Govinda said.

On the 16th floor of a public housing development which the family of nine called home in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the children were raised in four small rooms, homeschooled by their mother. Neighbors told “20/20” they didn���t see the children.

By the time the children had reached their mid-teens, Angulo had covered the windows of the apartment with blankets, and claustrophobia began to take a hold on the brothers. It wasn’t until one day in 2010, that Mukunda, the third youngest who was 15 at the time, found the courage to step outside alone for the first time.

Though her family had more freedom and less harsh conditions than the Turpin siblings allegedly lived in, Reisenbichler said she found similarities between her family’s experiences and that of the Turpins.

“When I heard the 17-year-old, I thought, ‘Mukunda was 15 when he broke out, so it’s a very close age,’” Reisenbichler said.

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Until five years ago, the six Angulo brothers were rarely let outside.

“I can’t, you know, speak for every family who’s gone through similar experiences. But I guess … with anybody who’s … confined you only know people from that world that you’ve been confined to,” Josef, now 25, said. “I think we knew in our gut that our situation was not right and we just didn’t fully understand it and but… because you have only each other to reach out to and to make the best you can out of it with whatever you can because a bond happens.”

After the boys, known as “the Wolfpack,” started leaving the apartment more often, they eventually gained more freedom to explore the outside world.

For years, the family didn’t have any outside friends until the brothers met director Crystal Moselle, who befriended them after she saw the boys walking down the streets of the Manhattan with their waist-long dark hair and sunglasses.

Moselle turned the family’s story into the documentary, “The Wolfpack,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015. And their lives haven’t been the same since.

Reisenbichler said it’s a complex question to ask why her children didn’t leave their homes sooner.

“Most people have that thought, ‘Why didn’t you leave? Why didn’t you get out?’ And that is whether the questioner realizes it or not,” Reisenbichler said. “It’s projecting blame onto the victim or the survivor, you know, asking, ‘Why didn’t you do this?’ Because it’s a very, very complex situation and it’s not easy to understand.”

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The Angulo brothers who starred in the documentary “The Wolfpack” say they continue to adjust to life outside of their apartment.

Josef said it’s fear of the outside world fostered by his father that made it especially hard to leave.

“That’s why it’s hard to break out and why you hold back for so long and why you hold back from any kind of help that may be possible, because it’s the conditioning, whether you realize it or whether you feel in your gut that it’s wrong. It’s very hard to break that especially when you become used to it your whole life,” Josef said.

Josef said that as his family met more people and slowly got to know more of what it was outside of their apartment, he feared what would happen in the future.

“’Do we go back? Do we break away from it forever?’” Josef recalled thinking. “It’s a break in your reality and you don’t know what’s going to happen and you don’t really know especially how to feel about it. You don’t know that you feel that this is a good thing or if this could just be a road to some [worse] thing.”

Though they said their lives have since changed for the better, Govinda said the experience will always be a part of them.

“In a way, it’s shaped us for who we are… I don’t know how we would’ve turned out if it had been something with the Turpins we went through,” Govinda said.

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Govinda Angulo, left, and two of his brothers are pictured together riding the train.

Reisenbichler said she watched as her sons overcame the hurdles of learning “how the everyday little details of a normal society are carried out.”

“They had to learn directions and how to go places and what subway lines went where and how to pay for a subway card and how to use the subway card. That was a really big thing, and just things like paying for food in the grocery store or going to buy a notebook … let alone preparing for job applications,” Reisenbichler said. “If you’ve never seen it and you’ve never dealt with it, it’s overwhelming. And I really have to give my children a lot of credit in how extremely well they’ve just handled everything, and just, you know, bounced through and they’ve just embraced all of the things that they’ve had to learn and catch up on, that people who are 10 years old already know normally in our society.”

“Some of the hardest adjustments I think mostly is having personal connections with other people because you feel you don’t,” Josef said. “Your own reality and our reality was so far removed.”

“In reality, we’re still adjusting,” Govinda said.

Today, many of the brothers have moved out of the apartment, and Oscar Angulo no longer lives there.

“My husband is no longer living at the apartment, and there was a big celebration for that. And I am still little by little continuing to work on a memoir of my life and my time with my children. And I’m also in the middle of working on some children’s books,” Reisenbichler said.

Both Josef and Govinda share an apartment with a friend.

When asked if they had a message for the Turpin siblings, Reisenbichler said, “I would like to say to the family that, don’t lose faith and don’t lose hope.”

“And however hard it will be, don’t be afraid to connect, to reach to people,” Govinda said.

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Thoughts : The Wolfpack (2015)

Film is a wonderful escape from the harsh realities of everyday life.  Many of my early days were spent running around the neighborhood with my friends making films on camcorders.  The Wolfpack is a documentary that explores that sense of escapism, and how it can inspire one to literally escape from situations they may find undesirable but feel they have little control over.

The Angulo family is the center of this documentary, comprised of husband Oscar Angulo and wife Susanne Angulo.  They are raising seven children in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.  Based on their beliefs, they choose to home school the children, and at the fear of exposing them to the outside world, the children spend almost all of their days and nights confined to their apartment.  In order to pass the time and find a way to have fun, the six brothers and their sister make their own versions of a litany of films.

What is immediately noticeable is the quality of the work produced by the siblings.  With no budget and limited resources, the siblings are able to make immediately recognizable facsimiles of the films that inspire them by pouring love into each endeavor.  From the nuanced dialogue of Quentin Tarintino to the grittiness of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy and more, the group hits all the right notes with amazing accuracy and consistency.  Even the scripts (which are transcribed on typewriter during VHS or DVD viewings) are adorned with hand-drawn versions of the film posters for each respective film.

While film is normally our escape from the outside world, it was actually something that helped expand the world view for Mukunda Angula, one of the more outspoken members of the sibling group.  He was the first of the siblings to leave the home against the wishes of his father, and this move eventually inspired the rest of the siblings to do the same.  The ripple effect caused is truly fascinating to watch... you see them react to New York in all of its glory despite having been raised there, Susanne and Oscar are both forced to make discoveries about themselves, and even Mukunda ends up making amazing strides in his personal and burgeoning professional life.

It would be hard to go into further depth without giving too much away, but what began as a chance encounter between director Crystal Moselle and this unique set of siblings has turned into a beautiful and inspiring documentary.  This one is heavily recommended for lovers of film, lovers of sociology, or esoteric thinkers, and it definitely sticks with you long after the credits have stopped rolling.

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Day 23 - The Wolfpack

The Wolfpack – 2015 – Crystal Moselle

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“Well what did he expect when all of us become of age, we’re still gonna do things his way? His system was just like a ticking time bomb.” – Mukunda[i]

The Wolfpack got me hard in the feels. Hard.

The story follows that of the six Angulo brothers that form The Wolfpack – Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna, and Jagadesh – their mother Susanne and sister Visnu as they emerge into the world after having been confined[ii] to their East Village apartment for 14 years by their father Oscar.

Oscar was the only one who had a key to the front door. The children were home schooled by Susanne. Some years they were given opportunities to leave the home a handful of times – other years not at all.

The primary way the boys accessed the world outside was through films, mostly American action and horror films. Before the pull of movies, their father wanted them to make music. And all throughout the film we can see by examining the background, how creative the children in this family are. There are some walls that are completely covered in artwork, drawings and paintings done by them. It’s astounding the interior life that they created for themselves. But film lit a real fire for them.

Film became a language through which to express their creativity and connect with each other; essentially to stave off madness[iii]. The boys would watch movies over and over, pouring over every frame of a DVD or VHS tape. They typed out transcripts of the diologue using a typewriter[iv]. They would keenly observe the mannerisms of the actors and taking note of the production design and costumes. All of this for the purposes of their own versions of these films.

And the ingenuity and resourcefulness in their recreations is awe inspiring. They genuinely used anything they had on hand to make it work. Cases in point: two of the films that they recreated were The Dark Knight and Reservoir Dogs.

When Mukunda describes the materials he and his brothers used to create their Batman costume I thought to myself that these kids are clever, resourceful and determined. Get a load of what they made using cereal boxes and a yoga mat.[v]:

The other side is that the realism of the cardboard and tape handguns they made for Reservoir Dogs was so convincing, that someone reported them to the cops[vi] and they were briefly arrested by a SWAT team that busted in their door: scary stuff. Luckily, after the cops searched the place every gun they found was paper – and they apologised and left. Still the family was shaken up. 

In 2010, one brother rebelled and found his way out of the apartment. Then the other brothers started to join him. It was on one of these first forays out into the world that they met the director of this film. They bonded when she mentioned that she was a filmmaker and the boys wanted to know everything they could about real filmmaking from her. She ended up being the first guest invited into the home ever.

As we get deeper into the story we learn the extent of the isolation experienced by their mother Susanne. And I also thought about their young sister Visnu and what her experience of isolation must have been different as she was not a member of the pack[vii].

Why these parents decided to shut themselves and their children off from the outside world is not settled for me. Their father and mother thought that this was best for their children, saying this was to protect their children from an outside world that they deemed hostile. That said, it occurred to me that Oscar had a desire to create a nation-state within their apartment ruled by him alone. As the quote above rightly indicates, this was a futile vision.

They had to eventually know that as the children became adults they would need – and they would demand – lives of their own.

And we leave the Angulo family just as the boys are finding their way outside the home. They have trouble finding connection and knowing how to relate to the outside world; it difficult but they also seemed excited by the possibility of what they can be, and not just what they can pretend at being.[viii]

Trailer: https://youtu.be/6oNvzXG_byQ

Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/movies/review-the-wolfpack-shares-the-story-of-brothers-and-a-cinematic-lifeline.html

SEE ALSO: Dogtooth, Be Kind Rewind

NOTES:

[i] I think it was Mukunda. If I’ve got the wrong brother please correct me.

[ii] Basically confined, to me more accurate

[iii] And I would suggest, violence too.

[iv] Blowing my MIND!

[v] Will I ever in my life be this gifted?

[vi] I’m not sure how the guns were seen. A brief run down the apartment hallway?

[vii] I will say, she is presented in this film as a separate unit from them. It made me think that her confinement may also have an additional solitary component. But, she doesn’t have a voice in this film to say one way or another; It’s a voice I’d love to hear.

[viii] I sincerely hope that there is a follow-up film in a few years. I need to know if Susanne saw her mom.

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short film by mukunda angulo - mirror heart (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX2WXlb2uf4)

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Ep 14: The Wolfpack with comedians Dave Ross and Anna Seregina

release date: Oct 19, 2015

Paco Romane and George Chen welcome Anna Seregina and Dave Ross to the Sup Doc living room. They discuss the much hyped documentary The Wolfpack. The Wolfpack is a 2015 American documentary film about a family who homeschooled and raised their seven children in the confinement of their apartment in the Lower East Side of New York City. Locked away for fourteen years, the Angulo family’s seven children—six brothers named Mukunda, Narayana, Govinda, Bhagavan, Krisna (Glenn), and Jagadesh (Eddie), and their sister Visnu—learned about the world through watching films. They also re-enact scenes from their favorite movies. They were homeschooled by their mother and confined to their 16th-story four-bedroom apartment in the Seward Park Extension housing project. Their father, Oscar, had the only door key and prohibited the kids and their mother Susanne from leaving the apartment except for a few strictly-monitored trips on the “nefarious” streets. Everything changed for them when 15-year-old Mukunda decided to walk around the neighborhood in January 2010, against their father’s instruction to remain inside. All the brothers then decided to begin exploring Manhattan and the world outside.

Dave Ross is a stand-up comedian in Los Angeles. Sometimes his comedy is vulnerable and personal. Other times his comedy is loud, stupid and about butts. You can find him stumbling around L.A. and the country, performing at every festival, club, theater, bar, fire hall or bombed-out stone building that will have him. He’s in a sketch group called WOMEN that makes sketches for Comedy Central and IFC’s Comedy Crib. He hosts the podcast Terrified on the Nerdist Network. He won a MOTH Grand Slam, he got interviewed on WTF with Marc Maron, and he told a story on Comedy Central’s Drunk History. He likes his cat. His cat’s dope.

Anna Seregina is a stand-up comic and performer, described as having the “worst aura.” She was named a “Comic to Watch” by the SF Weekly. She produces the Los Angeles branch of the long-running SF show “the Business.” She is a co-host of “Terrified with Dave Ross,” part of the Nerdist network. She has appeared in comedy festivals (RIOT LA, SF Sketchfest, Bridgetown, Sacramento, Crom, SF Comedy Day, SF Comedy & Burrito), hosted music festivals (Panache’s Bruise Cruise, Phono del Sol), told stories at storytelling events (the Moth, Porchlight), and done weird things publicly (SF MoMA, Artists’ Television Access, SFAI, Public Access TV). She starred in Joey Izzo’s “Stepsister,” which screened at Cannes, San Francisco International, and Traverse City film festivals in 2013. Most facts about her are true. Most truths about her are facts.

Produced by Will Scovill. Music by David Seigel

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The Wolfpack (2015)

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I always metaphorically describe our childhood as him being the landowner and us the people who work on the land.

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Too close to Reality TV exploitation for my personal taste. The brothers' movie re-enacments may make for good footage, but some of the main questions aren't addressed. Like, how exactly was it possible that they were cut-off from the rest of the world without anyone else intervening. And also how big actually was the only ever so slightly hinted at abuse of their mother by their father (in addition to holding a whole family captive in an apartment). And possibly their own abuse too.

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WOLFPACK, THE

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The Wolfpack (2015) Dir: Crystal Moselle DOP: Crystal Moselle “If I didn’t have movies, life would be pretty boring.”

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“Mukunda and Tim Roth comparing “Reservoir Dog walks” 👊🏼💥👊🏼 #thewolfpackfilm” instagram.com

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WOLFPACK, THE

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