The Most Precious of Cargoes

Nov 20, 2024

1h 21m

★ 7.6

Overview

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.

Genres

Animation

Drama

History

Production Companies

Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo

Les Films du Fleuve

StudioCanal

Prima Linéa Productions

Les Compagnons du Cinéma

VOO

RTBF

France 3 Cinéma

BeTV

The Most Precious of Cargoes Trailers

Cast

Wife (voice)

Dominique Blanc

Woodcutter (voice)

Grégory Gadebois

Man with the Broken Face (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Narrateur (voice)

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Man in the mole hat (voice)

Serge Hazanavicius

The father (voice)

Antonin Maurel

Interpreter (voice)

Matej Hofmann

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Laurent Bateau

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Simon Volodine

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Oleg Imbert

Red Army colonel (voice)

Adam Carage

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