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WOLF TOTEM

By Jean-Jacques ANNAUD

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Action/Adventure - Post-Production 2014

A young man discovers the mystical bond between herdsman and wolf amidst the beautiful wilderness of Inner Mongolia in Jean-Jacques Annaud's spectacular return.

- Year of production
- 2014
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Family, 3D
- Countries
- CHINA, FRANCE
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Budget
- 25 - 50 M$
- Duration
- 118 mn
- Director(s)
- Jean-Jacques ANNAUD
- Writer(s)
- Alain GODARD, Jean-Jacques ANNAUD, John COLLEE
- Cast
- Ankhnyam RAGCHAA, Shawn DOU, William FENG
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-0BE8-0000-0-0000-0000-3
- EIDR
- 10.5240/B99A-564F-051D-6AE5-86C1-R
- Producer(s)
- Bill KONG (For Edko Films Ltd), Jean-Jacques ANNAUD (Reperage), Zhang QIANG (China Film Group)
- Synopsis
- 1969. Chen Zhen, a young student from Peking, is sent to Inner Mongolia to teach a nomadic tribe of shepherds. But it is Chen who has much to learn - about existence in this endless, harsh and breathtakingly beautiful wilderness, about community, freedom and responsibility, and about the most feared and revered creature of the steppes - the wolf. Seduced by the complex and near-mystical bond between these sacred creatures and the herdsmen, fascinated by their cunning, their strength, their ferocious beauty, he captures a cub and tries to tame it. But the growing relationship between man and animal – as well as the tribe's ancient way of life, and the land itself - is threatened when a central government officer decides to eliminate all wolves from the region, whatever the cost.