The Maiden and the Wolves
2008/02/13 • Released • French
Overview
Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild. The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.
Director : Gilles Legrand
Casts
Laetitia Casta
Angèle
Jean-Paul Rouve
Émile Garcin
Stefano Accorsi
Giuseppe
Miglen Mirtchev
Zhormov
Patrick Chesnais
Léon Amblard
Michel Galabru
Albert Garcin
Lorànt Deutsch
Anatole
Didier Bénureau
Jacob, le louvetier
Urbain Cancelier
Le médecin
Laurent Gamelon
Le maréchal-ferrand
Jean-Michel Ribes
Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire
Elisa Tovati
Séréna danseuse
Sophie-Charlotte Husson
Madeleine Amblard
Roland Marchisio
Le gendarme
Jean-Michel Lahmi
Le lieutenant louveterie 1914
Marie-Françoise Audollent
La femme aveugle
Franck Adrien
Le collègue aviateur
Fabienne Chaudat
La postière
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