The Maiden and the Wolves | La Jeune Fille et les loups
The Maiden and the WolvesLa Jeune Fille et les loups
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.
Cast
Laetitia Casta
Jean-Paul Rouve
Stefano Accorsi
Miglen Mirtchev
Patrick Chesnais
Michel Galabru
Lorànt Deutsch
Didier Bénureau
Urbain Cancelier
Laurent Gamelon
Jean-Michel Ribes
Yves Gasc
Elisa Tovati
Agnès Sourdillon
Sophie-Charlotte Husson
Capucine Legrand
Grégoire Gempp
Yvonne Penz
Roland Marchisio
Marie Vincent
Jean-Michel Lahmi
Marie-Françoise Audollent
Chica Bigarnet
Franck Adrien
Fabienne Chaudat
Marc Beacco
Ludovic Debache
Philippe Bailly
Léopold Legrand
Nicolas Legrand
Philippe Vuaillat
Patrick De Montlivault
Bernard Veillet
Crew
