Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Age rating
- 12A
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Belgium
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- family relationships
- adult animation
- historical drama
- 1940s
- abandoned baby
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dominique Blanc
Wife (voice)
Grégory Gadebois
Woodcutter (voice)
Denis Podalydès
Man with the Broken Face (voice)
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Narrateur (voice)
- Serge Hazanavicius — Man in the mole hat (voice)
- Antonin Maurel — The father (voice)
- Matej Hofmann — Interpreter (voice)
- Laurent Bateau — A fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Simon Volodine — A fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Oleg Imbert — A fellow woodcutter (voice)
- Adam Carage — Red Army colonel (voice)
- Directed
- Michel Hazanavicius
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 203 ratings
- Studio
- Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, Les Films du Fleuve, StudioCanal, Prima Linéa Productions, Les Compagnons du Cinéma, VOO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
