The Maiden and the Wolves
2008 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.1 · 619 VOTES · DIR. Gilles Legrand
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,278 lines
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00:01:25 The Maiden and the Wolves
00:05:55 In the Russian campaign, my grandpa said
00:12:37 Come on.
00:16:45 howling for a mate with the same problem.
00:18:56 So I have to pose?
00:22:37 Happy birthday.
00:26:27 A vet tends mainly to horses.
00:29:10 Eye to eye.
00:31:51 Wild ones.
00:35:39 I'm going to die!
00:42:28 why did they come?
00:45:09 Couldn't you have carried her?
00:47:44 Who's stopping you, Mr Explorer?
00:54:08 Get to work, then.
00:57:24 Can I see her?
01:03:22 Come on...
01:08:55 You can't keep a corpse like this!
01:11:49 Rack-and-pinion. The term sounds beautifully metallic.
01:17:56 Not very reasonable
01:21:25 Kiss her!
01:25:27 The papers even mentioned
01:28:00 The wolves are through.
01:33:32 I followed her all the way up.
01:40:15 Mr Zhormov is taking apes to Turin.