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Original name: La Plus Précieuse Des Marchandises
English name: The Most Precious Of Cargoes
Year: 2024
Run time: 81 minutes
Language: French
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: France
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Producer: Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
Cast: Jean Louis Trintignant, Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydes
Screenplay: Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Animator: Julien Grande
Editor: Michel Hazanavicius, Laurent Pelé-Piovani
Sound Designer: Jean-Paul Hurier, Selim Azzazi
Music Composer: Alexandre Desplat
Production Designer: Julien Grande
Production Company: Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons Du Cinéma
Michel Hazanavicius was born and raised in Paris, France. His grandparents were originally from Lithuania, but relocated to France in the 1920s. Hazanavicius attended art school, and moved on to work as a director for commercials and television projects. In 1999, he wrote and directed his first feature film Mes Amis (1999), which featured his brother Serge Hazanavicius. Hazanavicius came to the attention of international audiences with the release of an almost wordless film, The Artist (2011), which starred Bérénice Bejo and Jean Dujardin. The film was a critical and popular hit, garnering many major nominations and awards.
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.
