The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)
November 20, 2024
Animation, Drama, History
1h 20m


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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Michel Hazanavicius
- 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
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Keywords
- based on novel or book
- holocaust (shoah)
- family relationships
- adult animation
- historical drama
- 1940s
- abandoned baby
- loss and grief