Accorsi and Casta with the wolves
Together in real life and soon on the screen, Italian actor Stefano Accorsi and his French companion Laetitia Casta will star alongside Jean-Paul Rouve in Gilles Legrand’s La Jeune fille et les loups (lit. “The Young Girl and the Wolves”).
Set just after WWI, the director’s second feature after the successful Malabar Princess (1.5m admissions in 2004) tells the story of Angèle (Casta), who wants to become the first woman veterinarian and defend the last pack of wolves in France, which are threatened by extinction.
The story, co-scripted by the director and Philippe Vuaillat with support from the experienced Jean Cosmos for the dialogue, spans the young woman’s childhood and adulthood, and Accorsi co-stars as a hermit living with wolves in the mountains while Jean-Paul Rouve will play Angèle’s real fiancé, the son of the village mayor.
A star in his native country (Best Actor at Venice 2002) but less well-known in France, Accorsi has appeared in films on both sides of the Alps in the past two years, alternating between French productions (Tiger Brigades [+see also:
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film profile] by Jérôme Corneau and Blame It On Fidel [+see also:
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film profile] by Julie Gavras, which Gaumont Columbia TriStar are releasing on November 29 in France – see news October 5, 2005) and Italian (Crime Novel [+see also:
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Casta is also sharing the screen with Mathieu Amalric in Le Grand appartement [+see also:
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Produced by Frédéric Brillion for Epithète Films (co-founded by Legrand), La Jeune fille et les loups’ 14-15 week shoot begins in March 2007 in the Ile de France and the Rhône-Alpes, two regions from which the feature hopes to get financing, as well as from France 2 and France 3 Cinéma.
The film is due for completion in December 2007 and Warner France will handle its theatrical release in France sometime in the first half of 2008.
(Translated from French)
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