The Most Precious of Cargoes

• Michel Hazanavicius
• 81 min
• Belgium, France
• 2024
• Animated

Michel Hazanavicius delivers an animated and profoundly moving Holocaust tale about a couple who discover a bundle in the forest outside Auschwitz.
A destitute woman stumbles upon an abandoned infant by the railroad tracks leading to the concentration camp. Risking her own life, she defies her antisemitic husband and raises the child as her own. However, when the camp is liberated, the past catches up with the newly formed family of foresters. With a restrained color palette, visionary master Hazanavicius (Academy Award winner for The Artist, GFF 2011) crafts a harrowing drama about the horrors of the Holocaust, while also exploring the complexities of human fates that dared to defy unfathomable evil. Combined with Alexandre Desplat’s heartrending score, the result is one of the most transformative cinematic experiences in recent years.

- Erik Toresson Hellqvist

• Animation
• Drama
• Familj
• Historia
• Krig
• Landsbygd
• Nationalism
• Omskakande
• Rasism