The Most Precious of Cargoes

Name: The Most Precious of Cargoes
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
Released: 2024-11-20
Duration: 1 h 21 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Hazanavicius

La Plus Précieuse des marchandises (2024)

Timing: 1:21 (81 min)

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Video for the film The Most Precious of Cargoes — Director Michel Hazanavicius On Making His First Animated Film The Most Precious of Cargoes | BAFTA

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Movie poster "The Most Precious of Cargoes"

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Release date

2024-11-20

Country

France, Belgium

Production

StudioCanal, VOO, BeTV, France 3 Cinéma, RTBF, Les Films du Fleuve, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Prima Linéa Productions, Les Compagnons du Cinéma

Genre

Animation, Drama, History

Budget

Box office

$4 331 717

Website

https://www.studiocanal.com/title/the-most-precious-of-cargoes-2024/

Director

Michel Hazanavicius

Actors

Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Serge Hazanavicius, Antonin Maurel, Matej Hofmann, Laurent Bateau, Simon Volodine, Oleg Imbert
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Scenario

Producer

Valérie Schermann, Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Robert Guédiguian, Michel Hazanavicius, Riad Sattouf, Christophe Jankovic

Camera operator

Composer

Alexandre Desplat

Artist

Clément Hamtat, Théo Gourp, Sven Laschzok

Audition

Editing

Laurent Pelé-Piovani, Pierre-Guy Taillan, Marie Picot
Whole Team (43)

Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

Development of the project began in 2019, but was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Jean-Louis Trintignant recorded his role as narrator shortly before his death in June 2022.
Initially, Gérard Depardieu was planned to voice the lumberjack. Against the backdrop of accusations of rape and sexual harassment, with the mutual consent of the actor and producers, he withdrew from the project and was subsequently replaced by Grégory Gadebois.