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Sep 11, 1970 · 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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- 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.
A young boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol) is discovered in a forest, living a feral existence among a pack of wolves. Captured by hunters, he is sent to Paris and placed in a...
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- François Truffaut
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- Jean-Pierre Cargol
Directed by: François Truffaut. When a young boy is found living like a wild animal in the forest, a doctor takes him in and slowly teaches him how to speak and function in society.
- François Truffaut
- January 1, 1970
- Jean-Pierre Cargol
- 85 min
May 16, 2023 · The wild child, who has been found recently in a forest in the rural district of Aveyron in southern France, is being taken to Paris, where Dr Itard and his colleague are eagerly awaiting his...
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Mar 21, 2018 · Made halfway through the director’s career, L’enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) is François Truffaut’s most seemingly straightforward work. Using documentary-style strategies – the film is “based on a true story” – it possesses simplicity of construction and depth of vision.
