Pierre Fabre
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 1 hr. 25 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a forest child into a semi-civilized idiot.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 401 min.) : sound, black & white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The wild child: 1798. In a forest, some countrymen catch a wild child who can not walk, speak, read nor write. Doctor Itard is interested by the child, and starts to educate him. Everybody thinks he will fail, but with a lot of love and patience, he manages to obtain results and the child continues with normal development.
Small change:The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend,...