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The Most Precious of Cargoes(2024)
Status: Released
Date: 2024-11-20
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73 Votes
Time: 1h 17m
Overview:
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.
Languages: French.
Countries:
Belgium,
France
Revenue: $4,286,828.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Les Compagnons du Cinéma
Movie: The Most Precious of Cargoes
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Narrateur (voice)
Dominique Blanc
Wife (voice)
Grégory Gadebois
Woodcutter (voice)
Denis Podalydès
Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Serge Hazanavicius
Man in the mole hat (voice)
Antonin Maurel
The father (voice)
Matej Hofmann
Interpreter (voice)
Laurent Bateau
A fellow woodcutter (voice)
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