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The Most Precious of Cargoes

OT: La plus précieuse des marchandises

Michel Hazanavicius | France, 2024
Animation | FF2024

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Story

ANIMATION Hand-drawn, the new film by The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius tells of the horrors of the Holocaust using the means of a fairy tale. During the Second World War, a family living in France is deported to Auschwitz. On the train to the extermination camp, the father throws his baby out of the window out of complete desperation. The screaming girl is found by the wife of a lumberjack who is collecting wood in the forest during a snowstorm. She considers it a gift from God and takes it into her home. Her husband also soon takes the child, whom his wife calls an „angel«, into his heart. And in the years that follow, the baby, this »most precious of all goods«, will bring out the worst and the best in the hearts of men.

Director

MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS (*1967 in France) gained international renown for his homage to silent film The Artist (2011). It won him the first French Oscar for Best Director. The Most Precious of Cargoes is based on the eponymous novel by Jean-Claude Grumberg.

Info

La plus précieuse des marchandises

Animation

French

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France

2024

81 min

OV with German subtitles

Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg

Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius

Selim Azzazi, Jean-Paul Hurier

Michel Hazanavicius, Laurent Pelé Piovanni

Alexandre Desplat

3.0 Studio

STUDIOCANAL GmbH

STUDIOCANAL GmbH

Ex Nihilo and Les compagnons du cinéma

STUDIOCANAL, France 3 Cinéma, Les films du fleuve, RTBF (télévision belge), Voo und Be Tv

Ciné+, France Télévisions, Wallimage

STUDIOCANAL

Tags

AnimationFrancophoneHistoryJewish CultureLiteratureMigration and OriginsDeath and Loss

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