The Most Precious of Cargoes

Local title
Kõige kallim aare
Original title
La Plus Précieuse Des Marchandises
Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Country
France, Belgium
Year
2024
Festival
28th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Best of Festivals
Genre
drama
Subject
children, orphanage, fairytale

An animated film about the Holocaust that inspires hope for a better future.

Once upon a time, in a vast wood, lived a poor woodcutter and a poor woodcutter’s wife. The cold, hunger, misery and war all around them make their life very harsh. One day, the poor woodcutter’s wife finds a baby thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through their wood. This baby, protected at all costs, this precious little cargo will disrupt the life of this woman, her husband’s, and all those who will cross its path, right up to the man who threw it off the train. Their story will bring out the worst and best in people’s hearts.

Michel Hazanavicius’s (“The Artist”) film was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. It was the first animated feature to be screened in the main competition at Cannes since Ari Folman’s “Waltz with Bashir” in 2008.

Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriter
Jean-Claude Grumberg, Michel Hazanavicius
Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Grégory Gadebois, Dominique Blanc
Producer
Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
Cinematographer
Michel Hazanavicius
World sales
StudioCanal
Runtime
Language
French
Subtitles
English
Director
Michel Hazanavicius

Screenings

2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening021201 / Kõige kallim aare
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
2nd Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening111203 / Kõige kallim aare
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
1st Lux Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening160101 / Kõige kallim aare
SubtitlesEnglish
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