The Most Precious of Cargoes

The Most Precious of Cargoes (2024)

12A
04/04/2025 (GB)
Animation, Drama, History
1h 20m

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.

  • Michel HazanaviciusDirector, Screenplay
  • Jean-Claude GrumbergScreenplay
  • Original Title

    La plus précieuse des marchandises

  • Status

    Released

  • Original Language

    French

  • Revenue

    $4,286,828

Keywords

  • based on novel or book
  • holocaust (shoah)
  • family relationships
  • adult animation
  • historical drama
  • 1940s
  • abandoned baby
  • loss and grief

Top Billed Cast

Dominique Blanc

Dominique Blanc

Wife (voice)

Grégory Gadebois

Grégory Gadebois

Woodcutter (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Denis Podalydès

Man with the Broken Face (voice)

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Narrateur (voice)

Serge Hazanavicius

Serge Hazanavicius

Man in the mole hat (voice)

Antonin Maurel

Antonin Maurel

The father (voice)

Matej Hofmann

Matej Hofmann

Interpreter (voice)

Laurent Bateau

Laurent Bateau

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Simon Volodine

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Oleg Imbert

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

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