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In the depths of winter, a woman finds a baby in a forest and takes it in against the wishes of her husband. In this emotional adaptation of a novel, directed by Michel Hazanavicius (“The Artist”), life in an ancient fairly-tale forest provides a sharp contrast to the horrors of the Holocaust.
A pair of poor woodcutters live in a large forest in Poland during the Second World War. Cold, hunger, poverty and the war raging all around make their simple life very hard. One day, the woodcutter’s wife rescues a baby – a little girl thrown from one of the many trains that 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 all those whose paths the child will cross – including the man who threw her off the train. The child’s story brings out both the worst and the best in the hearts of humans.
Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of “The Artist”, ventures into animation for the first time with “The Most Precious of Cargoes”. Based on the bestselling novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg, the drama interweaves the fate of a Jewish family with newborn twins who are deported to Auschwitz with that of a poor and childless lumberjack couple from Poland. Hazanavicius developed the project over a period of years, wrote the screenplay together with Grumberg and created the drawings; Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat created the score. The film celebrated its premiere in Cannes in 2024, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and honoured with the Prix du Cinéma Positif.
A pair of poor woodcutters live in a large forest in Poland during the Second World War. Cold, hunger, poverty and the war raging all around make their simple life very hard. One day, the woodcutter’s wife rescues a baby – a little girl thrown from one of the many trains that 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 all those whose paths the child will cross – including the man who threw her off the train. The child’s story brings out both the worst and the best in the hearts of humans.
Michel Hazanavicius, the Oscar-winning director of “The Artist”, ventures into animation for the first time with “The Most Precious of Cargoes”. Based on the bestselling novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg, the drama interweaves the fate of a Jewish family with newborn twins who are deported to Auschwitz with that of a poor and childless lumberjack couple from Poland. Hazanavicius developed the project over a period of years, wrote the screenplay together with Grumberg and created the drawings; Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat created the score. The film celebrated its premiere in Cannes in 2024, where it was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or and honoured with the Prix du Cinéma Positif.
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Duration 81'
Country FR/BE, 2024
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