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The Wild Child
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| Directed by | François Truffaut |
| Produced by | Marcel Berbert |
| Written by | Novel: Jean Itard Screenplay: François Truffaut Jean Gruault |
| Starring | Jean-Pierre Cargol François Truffaut Françoise Seigner Jean Dasté Annie Miller Claude Miller Paul Villé Nathan Miller Mathieu Schiffman Jean Gruault |
| Cinematography | Néstor Almendros |
| Editing by | Agnès Guillemot |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Running time | 83 minutes |
| Language | French |
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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.
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The film is set in the 18th century. A young boy is found in the forest near Aveyron. The child is mute, so he is placed under the supervision of Dr. Jean Itard. Itard names the boy Victor and observes the child's attempt to survive in his new, unknown world.
There's a narrow margin between the civilised aspects of rough Parisian life and the brutal laws of life in nature. Victor finds a sort of equilibrium in the windows that mark the transition between the closed interiors and the world outside. Candles and mandoline airs also have an effect on him. But Victor gains his ability to have social relations by losing his capacity to live as a savage.
The screenwriter Jean Gruault and the director François Truffaut were inspired by the early nineteenth-century novel by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, which was based on true events surrounding The Wild Boy of Aveyron, as the novel was called.
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
Material was also translated from the entry in the French Wikipedia for this film.
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| 1950s | Une Visite • Les Mistons • Une Histoire d'eau • The 400 Blows |
| 1960s | Shoot the Piano Player • Jules and Jim • Antoine and Colette • The Soft Skin • Fahrenheit 451 • The Bride Wore Black • Stolen Kisses • Mississippi Mermaid |
| 1970s | The Wild Child • Bed and Board • Two English Girls • Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me • Day for Night • The Story of Adele H. • Small Change • The Man Who Loved Women • The Green Room • Love on the Run |
| 1980s | The Last Metro • The Woman Next Door • Confidentially Yours |
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