Wild Child, The
L’Enfant sauvage · dir. François Truffaut
France 1970, 83’
Screenings
23 October, 21:00 · Od Nowa – large hall
The script to this film was inspired by true events that happened in the 18th century, in the woods of central France: a wild child was found in the woods and doctor Jean Itard took care of him. He was first noticed by a simple woman, who feared the boy. She ran away in terror, upon seeing him. When the woman runs into a group of hunters, she tells them about the find. This is the beginning of one of the most emotional fragments of the film, when men with barking dogs start a manhunt. Finally, the boy is seized. He ends up in a Paris home for deaf and dumb. The only man who believes that the boy is sane and capable of being restored to civilisation is doctor Jean Marc Gaspard.
| Director: | François Truffaut |
| Screenplay: | François Truffaut, Jean Gruault |
| Music: | Antoine Duhamel |
| Cinematography: | Néstor Almendros |
| Editing: | Agnès Guillemot |
| Cast: | Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner, Claude Miller, Jean Dasté |
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