The Most Precious of Cargoes

1h 21m

Animation Drama History

7.6

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

Dominique Blanc

Grégory Gadebois

Woodcutter (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Man with the Broken Face (voice)

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Narrateur (voice)

Serge Hazanavicius

Man in the mole hat (voice)

The father (voice)

Interpreter (voice)

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

A fellow woodcutter (voice)

Red Army colonel (voice)

Crew

Michel Hazanavicius

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Jean-Claude Grumberg

Screenplay, Story

Laurent Pelé-Piovani

Arnau Segarra Braunstein

Assistant Editor

Storyboard Artist, Animation Director

Assistant Production Coordinator

Natalène Darfeuille

Production Coordinator

Christophe Jankovic

Executive Producer

Pierre-Guy Taillan

Production Supervisor

Production Supervisor

Valérie Schermann

Patrick Sobelman

Florence Gastaud

Robert Guédiguian

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Clément Hamtat

Alexis Saint-Augustin

Antonio Mengual Llobet

Jean-Christophe Lie

Thomas Tulasne-Moeneclaey

Eloïse Rauzier

Pascal Herbreteau

Alexandre Desplat

Original Music Composer, Music

𝗬𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗶

Vassili Turostowski

Volodia Breitman-Ferri

Bernard Devillers

Production Director

Vassiliy Krasnikov

Laure Escadafals