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The Most Precious of Cargoes
Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and a war raging all around them meant their lives were very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby. A baby girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby, this "most precious of cargoes", will transform the lives of the poor woodcutter's wife and her husband, as well as those whose paths the child will cross—including the man who threw her from the train. And some will try to protect her, whatever the cost. Their story will reveal the worst and the best in the hearts of men.
2024 · Directed by Michel Hazanavicius · 81 min · Animation · Drama · History · 13 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Edited by: Laurent Pelé-Piovani
- Music: Alexandre Desplat
- Produced by: Valérie Schermann, Patrick Sobelman, Riad Sattouf, Robert Guédiguian
Cast
- Dominique Blanc as Wife (voice)
- Grégory Gadebois as Woodcutter (voice)
- Denis Podalydès as Man with the Broken Face (voice)
- Jean-Louis Trintignant as Narrateur (voice)
- Serge Hazanavicius as Man in the mole hat (voice)
- Antonin Maurel as The father (voice)
- Matej Hofmann as Interpreter (voice)
- Laurent Bateau as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Simon Volodine as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Oleg Imbert as A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Production
- Country: France, Belgium
- Language: French
- Studios: Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Les Films du Fleuve, StudioCanal, Prima Linéa Productions
- Box office: $4,331,717
- Themes: based on novel or book, holocaust (shoah), world war ii, family relationships, adult animation, historical drama, 1940s, abandoned baby
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