THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES

By Michel Hazanavicius
2024, France, animation, 1h21
Voices : Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès, Jean-Louis Trintignant

 

Screenplay : Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg · Based on the tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg
Character design: Michel Hazanavicius
Art direction: Julien Grande
Music : Alexandre Desplat
Film editing : Michel Hazanavicius, Laurent Pelé Piovani
Production : Patrick Sobelman (Agat Film-Ex Nihilo), Florence Gastaud (Les Compagnons du Cinéma)
Coproduction : Les Films du Fleuve (Belgium)

Synopsis
In the Polish forest during the Second World War, a couple of poor, elderly, childless woodcutters take in a baby thrown off a death train and decide to protect it against all odds, including their own anti-Semitic prejudices. A great animated film, magnificent and poetic, in which the light of the Righteous rises from the darkness.