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The Wild Child: Directed by François Truffaut. With Jean-Pierre Cargol, Françoise Seigner, François Truffaut, Paul Villé. In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- François Truffaut
- 1970-09-11
The Wild Child (French: L'Enfant sauvage, released in the United Kingdom as The Wild Boy) is a 1970 French film by director François Truffaut. Featuring Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté, it tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact.
Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” is the story of a “wolf boy” who lived like an animal in the woods, and about the doctor who adopted him and tried to civilize him. The story is essentially true, drawn from an actual case in 18th Century France, and Truffaut tells it simply and movingly.
Late 18th century Parisians visit the new attraction, the as-yet unnamed feral child (Jean-Pierre Cargol) at the National Institure for Deaf Mutes, in Francois Truffaut's. A crusading doctor tries to civilize a child raised in the wilderness by wolves.
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