Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
The true story of Victor of Aveyron. In a French forest circa 1798, an abandoned child — feral, filthy and mentally impaired — is found. Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard becomes interested in the case and patiently attempts to civilise the boy.
- experiment
- southern france
- civilization
- feral child
- punishment
- doctor
- based on memoir or autobiography
- reward
- tantrum
- wild child
The bill
Jean-Pierre Cargol
Victor, l'Enfant Sauvage
François Truffaut
Le Dr Jean Itard
Françoise Seigner
Madame Guerin
Jean Dasté
Professor Philippe Pinel
- Annie Miller — Madame Lemeri
- Claude Miller — Monsieur Lemeri
- Paul Villé — Remy
- Nathan Miller — Baby Lemeri
- Mathieu Schiffman — Mathieu
- Jean Gruault — Visitor at Institute
- Gitt Magrini — Countrywoman
- Jean-François Stévenin — Countryman
- Laura Truffaut — Girl at Farm
- Eva Truffaut — Girl at Farm
- Guillaume Schiffman — Boy at Farm
- Directed
- François Truffaut
- Written
- François Truffaut, Jean Gruault
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 313 ratings
- Studio
- Les Films du Carrosse, Les Productions Artistes Associés
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.
