The Maiden and the Wolves

The story

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.

Cast

L Laetitia CastaAngèle J Jean-Paul RouveÉmile Garcin S Stefano AccorsiGiuseppe M Miglen MirtchevZhormov P Patrick ChesnaisLéon Amblard M Michel GalabruAlbert Garcin L Lorànt DeutschAnatole D Didier BénureauJacob, le louvetier U Urbain CancelierLe médecin L Laurent GamelonLe maréchal-ferrand J Jean-Michel RibesLe directeur de l'école vétérinaire Y Yves GascLe notaire

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E Elisa TovatiSéréna danseuse A Agnès SourdillonRosette S Sophie-Charlotte HussonMadeleine Amblard C Capucine LegrandAngèle enfant G Grégoire GemppAntoine Y Yvonne PenzSéréna âgée R Roland MarchisioLe gendarme M Marie VincentLa matronne J Jean-Michel LahmiLe lieutenant louveterie 1914 M Marie-Françoise AudollentLa femme aveugle C Chica BigarnetLa femme du village F Franck AdrienLe collègue aviateur F Fabienne ChaudatLa postière M Marc BeaccoLe curé L Ludovic DebachePaulin P Philippe BaillyPetit Georges L Léopold LegrandLe garçon de ferme #1 N Nicolas LegrandLe garçon de ferme #2 P Philippe VuaillatUn gendarme P Patrick De MontlivaultLe douanier #1 B Bernard VeilletLe douanier #2