The Wild Child

L'enfant sauvage is a movie starring François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Cargol, and Françoise Seigner. In a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and...
In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.