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The Most Precious of Cargoes

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Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....

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Tara Judah Sight & Sound The subject requires far more grace than director Michel Hazanavicius can give it in under an hour, and despite some transitional cross-cutting, the film inevitably feels like two stories inelegantly stuck together. Apr 14, 2025 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian This is a rather sentimental bucolic tale, featuring sweet little cartoon birds and rabbits -- and the real horror of Nazi death camps. Yet the rebuke to the fascists is sincere enough. Rated: 3/5 Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Justin Chang The New Yorker The movie becomes a bathetic wallow in Holocaust imagery, drowned in an Alexandre Desplat score whose every surge turned my heart increasingly to stone. May 30, 2024 Full Review Samantha Schuster Cinéfilo Serial A highly emotional animated film that tells one more story about the horrors of Nazism and World War II, but in an original, sensitive and balanced way. It shows the laziness but also the light with technical aspects that raise it [Full Review in Spanish] Rated: 4.5/5 Jul 16, 2025 Full Review Jordi Batlle Caminal Fotogramas It is a sad, emotional, and essentially poetic film, replete with heartbreaking moments...[Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Jul 14, 2025 Full Review Luis Martínez El Mundo (Spain) Michel Hazanavicius completes an animated film as neat and obvious as it is exciting. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Yannis L Pour un premier film d'animation je troue que Michel Hazanavicius s'en sort bien, le sujet est intéressant et bien traité, certaines scènes m'ont même donnés des frissons. Si je peux noter un défaut, ce serait la narration qui manque un peu d'intérêt par moment. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/27/25 Full Review Runa R Magnificent film. The synopsis revealed almost nothing about the storyline; so it was a powerful experience to go in not knowing what to expect, allowing myself to discover the narrative gradually as the film unfolded. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/10/25 Full Review Cecil Berto da S Assisti sem muita expectativa, mas logo de início me deparei com uma animação excepcional e muito bem feita, os detalhes das personagens mesmo parecendo saídas de uma pintura digna de Louvre, conseguem passar sentimentos mesmo sem palavras ditas, e a história , 5min depois do início e prende-nós até ao fim, e que fim…doce e amargo, mas melhor do que esperado em qualquer história que envolva o Holocausto…linda obra de arte, se eu pudesse forçaria todo tipo de audiência a assitir esta animação Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/07/25 Full Review Maryna P I loved the movie. The animation and soundtrack are gorgeous. Also, the characters feel alive. A moving and thoughtful story Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/19/25 Full Review nina n Despite, or even thanks to, a stripped-down storyline, like that of a horror and fairy tale at the same time, we are moved. An excellent way to teach humans of all ages that kindness, love, and strength are accessible to all and are not only characteristics of the soul and spirit, but that they push us to action where these same qualities seem to have deserted time and space. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/08/25 Full Review Floris T Can't remember the last time a movie made me emotional in the cinema. This one made me shed a tear. Really liked the animation style, voice work and music was great too. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/26/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Once upon a time there was a poor lumberjack and his wife who lived in a deep Polish forest. The poor woman moaned that she had no children. Day and night, trains passed through the woods. One day, as the poor woman was watching a train that she thought was a cargo train, a package was thrown out and fell into the snow....
Director
Michel Hazanavicius
Producer
Patrick Sobelman, Florence Gastaud, Michel Hazanavicius
Screenwriter
Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Production Co
Ex Nihilo, Les Compagnons du Cinéma
Genre
Drama, Animation
Original Language
French (France)
Runtime
1h 20m