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The Most Precious of Cargoes( 2024)

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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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Dominique Blanc

      Wife (voice)

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      Grégory Gadebois

      Woodcutter (voice)

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      Denis Podalydès

      Man with the Broken Face (voice)

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      Jean-Louis Trintignant

      Narrateur (voice)

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      Serge Hazanavicius

      Man in the mole hat (voice)

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      Antonin Maurel

      The father (voice)

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      Matej Hofmann

      Interpreter (voice)

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      Laurent Bateau

      A fellow woodcutter (voice)

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      Simon Volodine

      A fellow woodcutter (voice)

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      Oleg Imbert

      A fellow woodcutter (voice)

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      Adam Carage

      Red Army colonel (voice)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Apr 20 2025
    Initially, I thought we were in for a reversion of “Tom Thumb” as a surly woodcutter and his wife live a subsistence existence in the snowy forest where she longs for a child, but we are swiftly disabused of that theory! Their lives are only ever broken up by the disturbance of the train as it passes through, and it’s when praying to that one day that she thinks she hears a baby crying. Searching the snow, she quickly discovers an infant wrapped in a distinctive blanket and quickly takes it to their home. Her husband, though, feels the child to be an ill omen and wants nothing to do with it, so...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    4331717.00

    Keywords

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