The Most Precious of Cargoes (French: La Plus Précieuse des marchandises) is a 2024 French animated drama film, directed by Michel Hazanavicius and with a screenplay by Jean-Claude Grumberg and Hazanavicius.
[2] The story centers on a Holocaust-surviving Jewish girl whose father throws her from a moving train heading to Auschwitz and ultimately found by a woodcutter and his family.
Hazanavicius boarded the project in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought it to a halt, allowing him to shoot the 2022 zombie-comedy film Final Cut in the interim.
[7] It was the first animated feature to be screened in the main competition at Cannes since Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir in 2008.
[12] On AlloCiné, the film received an average rating of 4.0 out of 5, based on 42 reviews from French critics.