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.
as Angèle
as Émile Garcin
as Giuseppe
as Zhormov
as Léon Amblard
as Albert Garcin
as Anatole
as Jacob, le louvetier
as Le médecin
as Le maréchal-ferrand
as Le directeur de l'école vétérinaire
as Le notaire
as Séréna danseuse
as Rosette
as Madeleine Amblard
as Angèle enfant
as Antoine
as Séréna âgée
as Le gendarme
as La matronne
as Le lieutenant louveterie 1914
as La femme aveugle
as La femme du village
as Le collègue aviateur
as La postière
as Le curé
as Paulin
as Petit Georges
as Le garçon de ferme #1
as Le garçon de ferme #2
as Un gendarme
as Le douanier #1
as Le douanier #2
