The Maiden and the Wolves ( La jeune fille et les loups )

The Maiden and the Wolves (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La jeune fille et les loups
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
110 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Gilles Legrand

Written By:
Jean Cosmos
Gilles Legrand

Actors:
Laetitia Casta ..... Angèle
Jean-Paul Rouve ..... Émile Garcin
Stefano Accorsi ..... Giuseppe
Michel Galabru ..... Albert Garcin
Patrick Chesnais ..... Léon
Miglen Mirtchev ..... Zhormov
Lorànt Deutsch ..... Anatole
Didier Bénureau ..... Jacob
Urbain Cancelier ..... Le médecin
Laurent Gamelon ..... Le maréchal-ferrand
Yves Gasc ..... Le notaire
Marie-Françoise Audollent ..... Rosette
Jean-Michel Lahmi
Roland Marchisio
Jean-Michel Ribes
Agnès Sourdillion
Elisa Tovati

Synopsis:

Laetitia Casta stars in director Gilles Legrand's drama concerning an Edwardian-era woman whose fate becomes permanently intertwined with that of the last wolf pack on Mount Blanc. Angele is a young girl who lives in a French Alpine town with her father Leon (Patrick Chesnais), the local taxidermist. Shortly after Leon receives a slaughtered pack of wolves, young Angele notices an orphaned black cub descending from the mountains in search of his family. Angele may be young but she realizes what fate will befall the cub if he is caught, so she quietly releases him back into the wild. Years later, World War I has come and gone, and local foundry owners the Garcins have struck it rich. Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru) is not only the family patriarch, but Angele's godfather as well. A benevolent and generous soul, Albert has given a local gypsy and her developmentally disabled son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi) a lifetime lease on a modest mountain shack. Giuseppe guards the surviving wolves with his life, taking a special shine to the black pack leader he names Carbone. Angele is all grown up now, and longs to become a veterinarian who specializes in undomesticated animals. Though the local men scoff at the idea of a female veteran, Angele knows her connection with nature is true. In order to gain some experience Angele recruits circus owner Zhormov (Miglen Mirtchev) to fly her into the mountains that tower above her hometown. During the course of their journey, however, the plan crashes and Angele is forced to wait as Zhormov searches for help. But sometimes help arrives in the most unexpected of forms, such as the black wolf that recognizes Angele's scent from back when he was just a frightened pup.

At the end of the First World War, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinary surgeon. Her eventful life will lead her to become the focus of relentless rivalry between her fiancé, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist, and a simple man, who leads a secluded life in the mountains, close to the wolves and far away from the madness of men. Angèle works this rivalry to her advantage in order to achieve her true purpose: saving the wolves.

Family drama. Set in a French Alpine town around the time of World War I. Angele saves and re-releases a wolf cub whose pack has been slaughtered and delivered to Angele's taxidermist father. Years later and an aspiring vet, Angele is left stranded in the mountains near her home town after a plane crash. Her earlier acts of kindness pay dividends.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 January, 2010.

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