---
title: 'The Wild Child (1970)'
type: 'film'
director: 'François Truffaut'
released: '1970-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 81
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-wild-child-1970'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064285/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Wild Child (1970)

1970 · 81 min · Drama · France, United States

Original title: L'Enfant sauvage

## Synopsis

The Wild Child is a 1970 French historical drama film co-written, directed by, and starring François Truffaut. It is based on the true events regarding Victor of Aveyron, a late 18th-century French child who spent the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact.

## Credits

- **Director:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut)
- **Screenplay:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Antonio Vivaldi](https://cinepixo.com/people/antonio-vivaldi)
- **Producer:** [Marcel Berbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-berbert)
- **Director of Photography:** [Néstor Almendros](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-almendros)
- **Editor:** [Agnès Guillemot](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-guillemot)

## Cast

- [Éva Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/eva-truffaut)
- [Jean-François Stévenin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-francois-stevenin)
- [Jean-Pierre Cargol](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-cargol) as Victor of Aveyron
- [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut) as Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
- [Gitt Magrini](https://cinepixo.com/people/gitt-magrini)
- [Pierre Fabre](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-fabre)
- [Claude Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-miller)
- [Françoise Seigner](https://cinepixo.com/people/francoise-seigner)
- [Paul Villé](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-ville)
- [Jean Dasté](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-daste) as Philippe Pinel

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