Wolf Totem
Synopsis
1969. Chen Zhen, a young student from Beijing, is sent to Inner Mongolia so as to to educate a tribe of nomadic shepherds. But it is in fact Chen who has a lot to learn – about life in this vast, hostile, and breathtaking land, about the notion of community, liberty, and responsibility, and about the most feared and venerated creature of the steppes, the wolf. Seduced by the complex and almost mystical bond between these sacred creatures and the shepherds, he captures a wolf cub in order to tame it. But the burgeoning relationship between man and animal – along with the tribe's traditional way of life and the future of the world itself – is threatened when a regional representative of the central authority decides to do whatever it takes to eliminate wolves from the region.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (4)
- Co-productions : Repérage, Mars Films, Goodfellas, Loull Production
- Foreign production companies : China Film Group, Beijing Qingnian Bao
- Film exports/foreign sales : Goodfellas
- French distribution : Mars Films
Full credits (11)
- Screenwriters : Alain Godard (Succession), Jean-Jacques Annaud, Lu Wei, John Collee
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marie Dreujou
- Music Composer : James Horner
- Assistant Director : Matthieu De La Mortiere
- Editor : Reynald Bertrand
- Author of original work : Jiang Rong
- Producers : La Peikang, Xavier Castano, Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Press Attaché (film) : André-Paul Ricci
- Continuity supervisor : Laurence Duval-Annaud
- Production Designer : Quan Rongzhe
- Sound Mixer : Cyril Holtz
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Adventure, Drama
- Production language : Mandarin
- Coproducer countries : China, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (China, France)
- Production year : 2013
- French release : 25/02/2015
- Runtime : 1 h 58 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 136.726
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
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