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Cannes Film Festival Adds Michel Hazanavicius, Mohammad Rasoulof Movies to Competition Lineup (EXCLUSIVE)
Cannes Film Festival has added Michel Hazanavicius' 'The Most Precious of Cargoes' and Mohammad Rasoulof's 'Seed of the Sacred Fig' to its lineup.
The drama intertwines the fate of a Jewish family, including newborn twins, who is arrested in Paris and deported to Auschwitz, with that of a poor and childless woodcutter couple living in the depths of a Polish forest. In a previous interview discussing the project with Variety, Hazanavicius said, “Grumberg’s tale succeeds in opposing the force of life to the industry of death, finding something beautiful to tell about [a period] that will forever remain a stain on the history of mankind.” “The Most Precious of Cargoes” is produced by Patrick Sobelman and Robert Guédiguian at France’s Ex Nihilo, as well as Florence Gastaud, Riad Sattouf and Hazanavicius at Les Compagnons de Cinéma.
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