THE MOST PRECIOUS OF CARGOES

LA PLUS PRÉCIEUSE DES MARCHANDISES

By Michel HAZANAVICIUS

LEV CINEMAS LTD. / SHANI FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, ISRAEL

Animation - Completed 2023

Directed and scored by Oscar winners Michel Hazanavicius and Alexandre Desplat, and with superb animation, this timeless and deeply moving tale is a powerful reminder that in the darkest times, the soul of humanity can only be preserved by the bright light of love and the heroism of ordinary people.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2024
Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2023
    • Genres
    • Animation
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Director(s)
    • Michel HAZANAVICIUS
    • Writer(s)
    • Jean-Claude GRUMBERG
    • Producer(s)
    • Patrick SOBELMAN (EX NIHILO), Florence GASTAUD (LES COMPAGNONS DU CINÉMA )
    • Synopsis
    • 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.