Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is saved from discovery and certain death by Leon’s young daughter Angele, who releases him back into the wild. The Great War comes and goes, making local foundry owners the Garcins rich. Family patriarch Albert Garcin (Michel Galabru), who happens to be Angele’s godfather, has given a free lifetime’s lease of a shack in the hills to a gypsy woman (played in flashbacks by Elisa Tovati in which she’s seen, literally, having dances with wolves on stage). Her son Guiseppe (Stefano Accorsi), who appears to be slightly mentally handicapped, guards the wolves he’s befriended up there, especially the black pack leader he calls Carbone.
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Laetitia Casta as Angèle
Jean-Paul Rouve as Émile Garcin
Stefano Accorsi as Giuseppe
Miglen Mirtchev as Zhormov
Patrick Chesnais as Léon Amblard
Michel Galabru as Albert Garcin
Lorànt Deutsch as Anatole
Didier Bénureau as Jacob, le louvetier
Urbain Cancelier as Le médecin
Laurent Gamelon as Le maréchal-ferrand
Jean-Michel Ribes as Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire
Yves Gasc as Le notaire
Elisa Tovati as Séréna danseuse
Agnès Sourdillon as Rosette
Sophie-Charlotte Husson as Madeleine Amblard
Capucine Legrand as Angèle enfant
Grégoire Gempp as Antoine
Yvonne Penz as Séréna âgée
Roland Marchisio as Le gendarme
Marie Vincent as La matronne
Jean-Michel Lahmi as Le lieutenant louveterie 1914
Marie-Françoise Audollent as La femme aveugle
Chica Bigarnet as La femme du village
Franck Adrien as Le collègue aviateur
Fabienne Chaudat as La postière
Marc Beacco as Le curé
Ludovic Debache as Paulin
Philippe Bailly as Petit Georges
Léopold Legrand as Le garçon de ferme #1
Nicolas Legrand as Le garçon de ferme #2
Philippe Vuaillat as Un gendarme
Patrick De Montlivault as Le douanier #1
Bernard Veillet as Le douanier #2
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