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An Animated Fable From the Director of ‘The Artist’ Finds Hope in the Holocaust

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  • Festival 40
  • Director: Michel Hazanavicius
  • France 2024
  • 81 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

"The Most Precious of Cargoes" is the new film by Oscar winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), a moving adaptation of the acclaimed book of the same name. Set during World War II, this story is masterfully transformed into a magnificent animated drama — a powerful and emotional work of art about life, compassion, the greatest evil, and the goodness within the human heart.

A poor woodcutter and his wife live alone in a forest, leading a modest and challenging life marked by cold, poverty, and the surrounding war. One day, the woodcutter's wife saves a baby thrown from one of the many trains passing through the forest. This baby, the most precious cargo, will forever change the lives of the couple and everyone she meets on her journey — both those who wish to protect her and those who do not...

Filmography: The Lost Prince (2020), The Artist (2011), OSS 117 (2006).

 


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  • Director Michel Hazanavicius
  • Production Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
  • Script Michel Hazanavicius, based on book by Jean-Claude Grumberg
  • Editing Michel Hazanavicius, Laurent Pelé Piovanni
  • Music Alexandre Desplat
  • Festivals Cannes, Annecy
  • Voices Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Louis Trintignant
  • Source Lev Cinemas

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