• Director(s)

    Michel Hazanavicius

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    11/04/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Animation, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    80m

  • Cast

    Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès

Film

The Most Precious of Cargoes

Holocaust images, disturbing scenes, discrimination, violence

A grieving woman discovers an abandoned baby and hopes to raise it with her reluctant woodcutter husband, as war rages and the atrocities of the Holocaust unfold around them in this animated drama. …

A grieving woman discovers an abandoned baby and hopes to raise it with her reluctant woodcutter husband, as war rages and the atrocities of the Holocaust unfold around them in this animated drama.

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Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

injury detail

disturbing images

theme

  • Director(s)

    Michel Hazanavicius

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Release date

    11/04/2025

  • Genre(s)

    Animation, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    80m

  • Cast

    Dominique Blanc, Grégory Gadebois, Denis Podalydès

Holocaust images, disturbing scenes, discrimination, violence
Classified Date:
25/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
violence
A man is stabbed in the chest with an axe, but visual detail is brief. Gunshots are heard and violence is audibly implied as a fight between several men breaks out. There are shootings. Explosions and gunfire are seen and heard as wartime conflict moves closer to a rural community. A man shoves his wife during an argument.
threat and horror
There are scenes of gun threat. Fierce dogs bare their teeth and bark at fearful prisoners disembarking from a train. Characters are threatened with death.
language
There is very mild bad language ('damn').
sex
Brief verbal references are made to a man's 'seed', in the context of child conception.
discrimination
Characters make derogatory and discriminatory remarks about Jewish people. A group of men state their willingness to dispose of a young Jewish child. Discrimination is not condoned by the work.
injury detail
A man is left with a small bloody chest injury in the aftermath of violence. A character draws attention to a facial disfigurement he suffered as a result of violence.
disturbing images
An impressionistic sequence shows images of anguished, skeletal faces to suggest the scale of concentration camp exterminations.
theme
There are upsetting references to, and depictions of, the Holocaust throughout. People are shown crowded onto trains and visibly distressed as they are transported to a concentration camp. Prisoners are seen moving the emaciated dead bodies of murdered people as smoke billows from the camp's chimneys. A sickly, traumatised survivor wanders from the camp following its liberation. References are also made to Holocaust denial. Characters grieve for lost loved ones and a man is compelled to abandon a child in the hope of saving its life.
alcohol and smoking
Characters drink alcohol, occasionally to excess, and smoke cigarettes.
Holocaust images, disturbing scenes, discrimination, violence
Classified Date:
12/03/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
violence
A man is stabbed in the chest with an axe, but visual detail is brief. Gunshots are heard and violence is audibly implied as a fight between several men breaks out. There are shootings. Explosions and gunfire are seen and heard as wartime conflict moves closer to a rural community. A man shoves his wife during an argument.
threat and horror
There are scenes of gun threat. Fierce dogs bare their teeth and bark at fearful prisoners disembarking from a train. Characters are threatened with death.
language
There is very mild bad language ('damn').
sex
Brief verbal references are made to a man's 'seed', in the context of child conception.
discrimination
Characters make derogatory and discriminatory remarks about Jewish people. A group of men state their willingness to dispose of a young Jewish child. Discrimination is not condoned by the work.
injury detail
A man is left with a small bloody chest injury in the aftermath of violence. A character draws attention to a facial disfigurement he suffered as a result of violence.
disturbing images
An impressionistic sequence shows images of anguished, skeletal faces to suggest the scale of concentration camp exterminations.
theme
There are upsetting references to, and depictions of, the Holocaust throughout. People are shown crowded onto trains and visibly distressed as they are transported to a concentration camp. Prisoners are seen moving the emaciated dead bodies of murdered people as smoke billows from the camp's chimneys. A sickly, traumatised survivor wanders from the camp following its liberation. References are also made to Holocaust denial. Characters grieve for lost loved ones and a man is compelled to abandon a child in the hope of saving its life.
alcohol and smoking
Characters drink alcohol, occasionally to excess, and smoke cigarettes.
Classified Date:
25/02/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal

  • Classified date

    25/02/2025

  • Language

    French