The Wild Child

The Wild Child French LEnfant sauvage , released in the United Kingdom as The Wild Boy is a 1970 French film by director Franois Truffaut. Featuring JeanPierre Cargol, Franois Truffaut, Franoise Seigner and Jean Dast, 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.

One summer day in 1798, a naked boy eleven or twelve years of age JeanPierre Cargol is found in a forest in the rural district of Aveyron in southern France. A woman sees him, then runs off screaming. She finds some hunters and tells them that she saw a wild boy. They hunt him down with a pack of dogs a Beauceron, a German Shepherd, an Airedale Terrier and an English Springer Spaniel. The dogs, upon picking up the boys scent, chase him up a tree. A branch breaks off, and the dogs attack him when he falls. He fights them off leaving one wounded, then continues to flee and hides in a hole. The dogs continue to follow his scent, eventually finding his hiding hole. The hunters arrive and force him out of the hole using smoke to cut off his air supply. After he emerges, the men grab him.Living like a wild animal and unable to speak or understand language, the child has apparently grown up in solitude in the forest since an early age. He is brought to Paris and initially placed in a school for deafmutes. Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard Franois Truffaut observes the boy and believes that he is neither deaf nor, as some of his colleagues believe, an idiot. Itard thinks the boys behavior is a result of his deprived environment, and that he can be educated. ........

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