The Good German
Synopsis
Favorably compared to his masterpiece The 400 Blows, director/co-writer François Truffaut reached another milestone with the true story of Jean Itard (Truffaut), a visionary doctor who takes on the incredible task of civilizing The Wild Child—a young boy found living alone in the woods of France in the 1700s. At The National Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Paris, the barely clothed and dirty young boy is admitted. Found in a forest living like an animal, the child is unable to speak, communicate or otherwise function normally. Christened Victor by the hospital staff, his case is taken up by Itard, a patient and loving doctor who is also the lone physician who believes he can transform the scarred boy (Jean-Pierre Cargol, in an astonishing debut) from a savage into a reasoning, civilized being. But the road to taming the beast will be a rocky one.
In French with English Subtitles.
