The Maiden and the Wolves

6.2
  • Genre: DramaFamily
  • Run time: 110 min
  • Premiere: 2008. February 13.

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.

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Jean-Paul Rouve

Émile Garcin

Patrick Chesnais

Léon Amblard

Michel Galabru

Albert Garcin

Didier Bénureau

Jacob, le louvetier

Urbain Cancelier

Le médecin

Laurent Gamelon

Le maréchal-ferrand

Jean-Michel Ribes

Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire

Yves Gasc

Le notaire

Elisa Tovati

Séréna danseuse

Sophie-Charlotte Husson

Madeleine Amblard

Capucine Legrand

Angèle enfant

Yvonne Penz

Séréna âgée

Roland Marchisio

Le gendarme

Marie Vincent

La matronne

Jean-Michel Lahmi

Le lieutenant louveterie 1914

Marie-Françoise Audollent

La femme aveugle

Chica Bigarnet

La femme du village

Franck Adrien

Le collègue aviateur

Fabienne Chaudat

La postière

Marc Beacco

Le curé

Philippe Bailly

Petit Georges

Léopold Legrand

Le garçon de ferme #1

Nicolas Legrand

Le garçon de ferme #2

Philippe Vuaillat

Un gendarme

Patrick De Montlivault

Le douanier #1

Bernard Veillet

Le douanier #2

Directing

Gilles Legrand

Director