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20/11/2024 Animation, Drama, History 1h 21m
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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.

  1. Michel Hazanavicius

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Dominique Blanc

    Wife (voice)

  2. Grégory Gadebois

    Woodcutter (voice)

  3. Denis Podalydès

    Man with the Broken Face (voice)

  4. Jean-Louis Trintignant

    Narrateur (voice)

  5. Serge Hazanavicius

    Man in the mole hat (voice)

  6. Antonin Maurel

    The father (voice)

  7. Matej Hofmann

    Interpreter (voice)

  8. Laurent Bateau

    A fellow woodcutter (voice)

  9. Simon Volodine

    A fellow woodcutter (voice)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-04-20
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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
French

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$4,331,717.00

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