

The Most Precious of Cargoes
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $4.3M
- Language
- French
- based on novel or book
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- family relationships
- adult animation
- historical drama
- 1940s
- abandoned baby
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Produced in
France, Belgium
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Physical23 Jun 2026
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical (limited)12A4 Apr 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival14 Aug 2024
- PremiereMJewish International Film Festival31 Oct 2024
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+138 May 2025
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1417 Apr 2025
ChileCL
- TheatricalTE+715 May 2025
ChinaCN
- Theatrical (limited)16 Aug 2025
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical24 Apr 2025
EstoniaEE
- PremiereTallinn Black Nights Film Festival9 Nov 2024
- Theatrical31 Jan 2025
FranceFR
- PremiereTPCannes Film Festival24 May 2024
- PremiereTPAnnecy International Animation Film Festival9 Jun 2024
- TheatricalTP20 Nov 2024
- PhysicalTPDVD / Blu-ray26 Mar 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical126 Mar 2025
GuatemalaGT
- Theatrical24 Apr 2025
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The Most Precious of Cargoes was released on 20 November 2024.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
4/20/2025
Initially, I thought we were in for a reversion of “Tom Thumb” as a surly woodcutter and his wife live a subsistence existence in the snowy forest where she longs for a child, but we are swiftly disabused of that theory! Their lives are only ever broken up by the disturbance of the train as it passes through, and it’s when praying to that one day that she thinks she hears a baby crying. Searching the snow, she quickl…
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