The Wild Child

This article is about the 1970 film. For other uses, see Wild child.
"L'Enfant Sauvage" redirects here. For the Gojira album, see L'Enfant Sauvage (album).

The Wild Child
Theatrical release poster
Directed byFrançois Truffaut
Screenplay byFrançois Truffaut
Jean Gruault
Based onThe Memorandum and Report on Victor de l'Aveyron
by Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
Produced byMarcel Berbert
StarringJean-Pierre Cargol
François Truffaut
Françoise Seigner
Jean Dasté
CinematographyNéstor Almendros
Edited byAgnès Guillemot
Music byAntonio Vivaldi (Concerto for Piccolo and Strings in C Major RV 443)
Production
company
Les Films du Carrosse
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release dates
  • February 26, 1970 (1970-02-26) (France)
  • September 9, 1970 (1970-09-09) (United States)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$800,000[1]
1,674,771 admissions (France)[2]

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 spends 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 Dr. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard. The film sold nearly 1.5 million tickets in France.[3]

  1. ^ Balio, Tino (1987). United Artists: The Company That Changed the Film Industry. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 282. ISBN 978-0299114404.
  2. ^ "Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films". Box Office Story.
  3. ^ "The Wild Child". JP Box Office.[unreliable source?]