The read
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 21m.
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.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
206 audience votes
Key crew
- Michel HazanaviciusDirector
- Michel HazanaviciusScreenplay
- Alexandre DesplatOriginal Music Composer
- Jean-Claude GrumbergScreenplay
Cast
- Dominique BlancWife (voice)
- Grégory GadeboisWoodcutter (voice)
- Denis PodalydèsMan with the Broken Face (voice)
- Jean-Louis TrintignantNarrateur (voice)
- Serge HazanaviciusMan in the mole hat (voice)
- Antonin MaurelThe father (voice)
- Matej HofmannInterpreter (voice)
- Laurent BateauA fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Simon VolodineA fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Oleg ImbertA fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Adam CarageRed Army colonel (voice)