Wolf Totem Page #3

Synopsis: In 1967, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; humans and animals, residents and invaders alike, struggle to find their true place in the world.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Jean-Jacques Annaud
Production: Sony Pictures
  11 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
PG-13
Year:
2015
121 min
Website
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Get up! Get up quickly!

Damn it! Go away!

Go away!

My horse is panicking!

Batu, I can't control it!

Batu!

You damn wolves!

Go to hell!

I'll kill you all!

Shartseren!

Stop them!

Stop, you dumb horses!

Don't go toward the lake!

Stop, please!

Tengger, help me!

This is a disaster.

Your brigade is to blame!

I will report your gross negligence

and disrespect to the leaders.

You'll pay for this!

Each of you will take responsibility...

...for failing to protect state property!

You, especially!

Deserted your post.

You will be sent to quarantine!

Do you have anything to say?

I lost control of my horse.

It was bitten by a wolf.

And then...

Then I fell off.

I think.

You're here to work!

Not to think!

Take him away!

We are still missing two herders.

They probably froze to death...

...and were eaten by wolves.

Incompetent bunch!

Shut up!

Forget it.

Director Bao Shungui.

I must beg to differ.

Our brigade did the best they could.

Batu fought to his death.

He died a hero.

A hero is someone who succeeds

in keeping those horses alive.

What kind of hero is he?

What kind of hero is he?

The culprits are those...

...who stole all their gazelles...

...and caused the wolves to starve...

...and take their revenge on us.

Enough.

Let the authorities

decide who the culprits are.

I'll help you.

- Leave him.

He chose to get off here.

This place is suitable.

A'ba.

It's too rocky

to bury him here.

Let's find another place.

Mongols don't bury their dead.

We grasslanders eat meat all our lives...

...for which we kill many creatures.

After we die...

...we donate our meat...

...back to the grassland.

I stitched it up.

Here you are.

Thank you.

Yesterday...

...you were very brave.

My man says:

Thank you.

He told me last night in my dream.

Gasma.

Thank you for your dog saving my life.

Who is...

...this meat for?

You were right.

I was jealous.

I took one of Yill's puppies.

Add millet to it.

Wolf mothers chew meat and bones...

...for their babies.

We use porridge

with meat and milk in it...

...to feed little dogs.

The authorities

have completed their investigation...

...on the army horse disaster.

All charges...

...are dropped.

The authorities regret...

...the heavy losses your brigade suffered.

Batu's...

...work points...

...will be transferred to his widow.

And as head of production,

I entrust Bilig...

...with taking over...

...Batu's duties.

But I won't tolerate any more mistakes.

All charges against

Batu's assistant, Shartseren...

...are dropped as well.

Set him free!

Chen Zhen.

Do it now.

What?

Free your wolf cub.

I can't free him right now.

He has the smell of man now.

The pack may kill him.

Chen Zhen.

What's this?

Open it.

A wolf cub?

Chen Zhen! What's this?

I confess.

I'm raising it.

This is just an experiment.

Chairman Mao says:

"Study your enemy to defeat him. "

So I thought we should observe wolves

more closely.

I say, no!

We could protect our herds...

...by mating him with our dogs.

That can't work!

At university...

...I taught the improvement of species.

That is my goal!

Bullshit!

Ha-ha-ha. Chen Zhen.

Your idea is good.

You have my approval.

Director Bao...

...the wolves are all over the place.

They heard the cub

and will come for it!

Good! Let them come.

Your wolf cub...

...will lure them.

Did you hear me?

Leave it alone.

Get back!

Go away!

This is madness.

Lamjav!

Take him away!

Okay, okay.

Back!

Hurry, get back.

Hurry up!

Got it!

Brothers, this is Tengger's will.

Wolves won't come tonight.

Brothers, let's go.

Let's go.

The little wolf

doesn't speak the pack's language.

Waste of our time. Let's go.

They won't attack for a puppy

they are not sure about.

Bayar.

Bayar!

Come here.

Are you mad?

Let's go.

A'ba.

Please forgive me.

You captured a god

to turn it into a slave.

What you are doing is an affront

to our ancestors and to Tengger!

You will pay one day.

And so will this old man!

A'ba.

Don't call me that.

I was wrong.

You're right.

I offended you and the Mongols.

Tell me how you want me...

...to dispose of this poor little wolf.

Look.

That's the border.

This is the last piece

of Chinese grassland...

...that has not been plowed.

The last untouched lake.

As soon as the lambs are strong enough

to make the trip...

...we will set up our summer camp here.

You say I treat my wolf as a slave.

In fact, I am the one who is his servant.

I wait on him

like I would a Mongol Prince.

I give him my ration of meat.

I can't sleep well at night.

I worry about him being cold or sick...

...or bitten by dogs

or carried away by an eagle.

Yang Ke says I am the wolf's slave.

Wolves want the dignity

to earn their own meat.

They don't want to be fed.

They want to kill

at the risk of being killed.

They are warriors.

What sort of warrior will he be...

...if you take his pride away?

If you forbid him to kill?

If you teach him to fear death?

A'ba.

I think this is a very good place...

...for the wolf cub to live.

Give me a few weeks...

...to help him grow stronger.

When we come here...

...I will set him free.

I promise.

As the old saying goes:

"It's easier to climb on the tiger's back

than to get off it. "

Chen Zhen.

What's going on?

Just a second!

What are you doing?

I'm getting angry.

You can't stay here, you know.

Dogs and eagles will eat you.

Understand?

Don't you understand?

Don't be silly!

You are smart.

We are going to a great new place.

You'll be happy there.

Come on.

Come on.

You have no choice!

I'm angry with you now!

Hurry up!

Go!

Let's go!

Stop!

Stop!

Stop the carts.

What's going on?

Let him go, for God's sake.

Once and for all!

How can he survive if I let him go?

He can't hunt.

What will he eat?

Will the wolves accept him?

I have to take care of him!

What are you doing?

Are you crazy?!

- What's wrong?

- We need dry dung!

For the journey.

How are we going to cook?

I'll take care of it.

I'll pick up more on the way.

Pick up more?

What if it rains?

What are you thinking? Let him go!

I've had enough!

This is my wolf, not your wolf!

I am the one who loves him!

You don't understand. Go away!

Go away!

Hey.

How long have you been

not eating your meat?

I don't need to eat meat.

Is he sick?

He is punishing me.

Yang Ke!

Look!

Behind this mountain

is the Swan Lake.

This is the place I told you about...

...that looks like heaven.

Look!

Look at the swans.

There. Do you see it?

Here come the nomads.

Bilig!

Welcome!

I didn't think you would come here, too!

Did you see?

These people will be your new neighbors.

Just like me.

They're Mongols from the east.

Ha-ha-ha.

Very experienced

in farming and agriculture.

They come here...

...because they've ruined their own land.

Our soil is too thin.

It's not suited for plowing.

Old Bilig.

There are people starving down east.

They have no choice...

...but to make use of land like this one.

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Alain Godard

Alain Godard is a screenwriter and film producer best known for such films as The Name of the Rose, Two Brothers, Enemy at the Gates, Day of the Falcon, Wolf Totem and Dracula and Son. more…

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