Overview

Poor but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello's mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello's mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.

Genres

Cast

Jack Warden

Jehan

Jeremy Kissner

Nello

Jesse James

Young Nello

Jon Voight

Michel

Cheryl Ladd

Anna

Bruce McGill

William

Steven Hartley

Cogez

Andrew Bicknell

Stephens

Antje De Boeck

Millie

Madylin Sweeten

Young Aloise

Fred Van Kuyk

Mayor

Bouli Lanners

Constable