The Most Precious of Cargoes
2024 · 81 min · Animation, Drama, History
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.
- Director
- Michel Hazanavicius
- Writers
- Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
- Released
- November 20, 2024
- Language
- French
Cast
Dominique Blanc
Wife (voice)
Grégory Gadebois
Woodcutter (voice)
Denis Podalydès
Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Narrateur (voice)
Serge Hazanavicius
Man in the mole hat (voice)
Antonin Maurel
The father (voice)
Matej Hofmann
Interpreter (voice)
Laurent Bateau
A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Simon Volodine
A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Oleg Imbert
A fellow woodcutter (voice)
Adam Carage
Red Army colonel (voice)
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