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The Wild Child is a french film of genre Drama directed by François Truffaut released in USA on 11 september 1970 with Jean Dasté

The Wild Child (1970)

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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. Featuring Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut, Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté, it tells the story of a child who spent the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact. It is based on the true events regarding the child Victor of Aveyron, reported by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard. The film sold nearly 1.5 million tickets in France.

Synopsis

The film opens with the statement: "This story is authentic: it opens in 1798 in a French forest."

Actors

Jean Dasté

(Professor Philippe Pinel)
François Truffaut

(Le Dr Jean Itard)
Claude Miller

(Monsieur Lemeri)
Annie Miller

(Madame Lemeri)
Jean-François Stévenin

(Countryman)
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