Wolf Totem Page #4

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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Look, we'll build a school here.

A dispensary there.

We will use traps and poison...

...to eradicate all toxic plants.

Pests, mosquitoes...

...rats...

...and wolves, of course.

Stop shooting!

Stop shooting!

Let's find somewhere else to settle down.

Director!

Director!

The swans are so beautiful!

Stop the shooting.

I beg of you.

Have you seen Swan Lake?

What are you doing?!

Want to run away?!

Don't tell me this one

was killed by an eagle, too.

No?

By lightning, perhaps?

Do you know

what our parents would do...

...for a piece of meat like that in Beijing?

Little wolf, little wolf, time to eat!

Time to eat!

Grow up quickly.

You have to become stronger.

Stronger than foxes, eagles,

and wild wolves.

Got it?

Watch out!

See that?

Wolf trap.

Remember it when you're free.

Get it?

Don't be afraid.

You know you have to learn how to swim.

You are a real wolf.

Come on.

Bravo!

In the grassland,

the mosquito season came.

As Bilig A'ba predicted...

...mosquitoes that survived the winter

in marmot holes...

...invaded the grassland...

...in larger numbers than ever.

Cattle withered.

Unable to hunt...

...starving and scraggy...

...wolves moved closer

to populated areas.

They preyed on cattle.

The new settlers retaliated.

Where are you going?

Where are you taking me?

What's that?

What's that smell

that makes you so happy?

Slowly!

Slowly!

What's up with you?

Come back!

I said come back!

Did you hear me?

Come back!

Come back!

You monster!

How dare you bite me?!

Sorry. I am wrong.

You are a real Mongolian wolf.

I am proud of you.

What happened?

Nothing.

Your wolf did this?

You are mad!

It's okay.

Just a scratch.

I told you...

...they have poison in their teeth!

They don't.

That's just superstition.

You don't get it.

How do you think Wuli lost his leg?

Or Bayin, his arm?

It's like a snake's bite.

Your arm will fester

and they will cut it off.

Without an injection, you will die.

I don't need your help.

Where can I get an injection?

At the hospital.

But all those new settlers

are using everything up.

Maybe there is nothing left.

It will hurt a bit.

You have to be careful.

Does Batu...

...still come in your dreams?

Sometimes.

Is he happier now?

No.

What does he want?

None of your business.

I know one thing.

He wants you to remarry.

Nothing strange about that.

His son needs a father.

His woman needs a man.

She doesn't.

She's too busy.

He wants you to choose me.

Why would he want me to choose you?

You are a Han student.

Because he knows I love you.

You know it as well.

Maybe you feel the same.

Gasma.

Stop it!

You won't stay.

Who said I won't stay?

Your home is Beijing.

There is no future for the two of us.

Everybody knows how these things end.

They don't know me.

This is my real home.

My life before was meaningless.

What can I do

to make you trust me?

There is no need.

My new man has been chosen.

By whom?

By you?

He is Bao Shungui's brother.

Have you already met him?

Have you?

His wife's dead.

He is a peasant.

A Mongol from the east.

It will help national unity.

Nonsense!

If you want national unity,

marry me!

It's ridiculous!

Does A'ba know?

I am going to ask A'ba!

He gave his approval.

He said we should keep up

with the times.

Lock them in the sheep pen

and we can go home.

Lock up the sheep!

Seal the door.

There are wolves outside!

Little wolf, little wolf, time to eat!

Eat the bowl while you're at it.

Bayar.

I am off to my shift.

Could you look after the little wolf?

Make sure that no one bothers him,

okay?

Mm.

See you later.

Hurry up!

Hurry up!

Hurry up!

I want to see the wolf.

No, you can't.

Let me go inside.

I will give you two candies.

Here you are.

What does this mean?

Well?

Can't open it.

Okay, no touching.

Let's go inside.

Do you understand?

Let me go first!

Leave him alone!

Don't pull the chain!

He will bite you!

Stay away.

There may be either a bomb or poison.

Yang Ke!

Yang Ke!

Why is he here so early?

How can I know?

I am here!

What are you doing?

Just had a nap.

I am coming!

Stay here. I will deal with him.

Anyone there?!

Your mother!

No, it's not.

Hide yourself anyway!

Crawl. Crawl.

Yang Ke, where is my belt?

Bayar has been bitten!

Bayar has been bitten!

By what?

Your stupid friend's wolf!

Hurry up! Come with me!

Hurry up!

We can't sew up his wounds.

Better to leave them open.

The last shot of penicillin

and rabies vaccine we had...

...we gave it to you.

Without it, it's going to be touch and go.

You can wait here.

I am sorry.

Get out.

Out!

If anything bad happens to my son...

...I will kill your wolf...

...then kill myself.

Nurse, is the doctor here?

Sit and wait.

It's urgent!

For the others, too. Just wait.

Doctor.

Doctor!

- Doctor!

- What are you shouting for?!

Doctor!

Stop shouting.

- Are you the doctor?

- Stop shouting.

- Are you the doctor or not?!

Don't you see the operating room?

Where is the doctor?

Go sit there and wait.

Doctor!

I told you to go there to wait!

Whose horse is eating the tree?

Hey, your horse!

Go look after your horse!

What are you doing? Wait your turn!

Doctor, I need penicillin.

Penicillin!

What penicillin?

I don't have penicillin.

Don't go in there!

Don't go in there!

Why do you need penicillin?

A child has been bitten by a wolf.

The doctor in the county-town

said that without penicillin...

...the wounds will get infected

and he will die!

I rode for 20 hours to get here!

Do you have penicillin here?!

Well...

Where is the penicillin?

Stop that!

You won't find penicillin here!

All right.

Wolf teeth, wolf claws...

...and...

...wolf heart, wolf kidney.

Can you get me those things?

Then we could make a deal.

I just want penicillin.

Then it's a deal.

Give me penicillin!

Wolves are attacking the sheep pen!

Let's go kill the wolves!

Chen Zhen. Come out!

Chen Zhen!

Chen Zhen, come out!

Is it the right place?

Anyone there?

Chen Zhen!

Come out!

What are you doing?!

Come out!

What is going on here?!

Come out!

Where is your wolf-loving friend?

He is not here. He went to town!

That was five days ago!

Why's he not back?

I don't know!

There was an emergency!

It is your wolf cub who called

the flying wolves to attack!

What flying wolf?!

Wolves don't fly!

They do!

My grandpa saw it with his own eyes!

That's right!

- It's not here.

Then where is it?

Tell me the truth.

Where did you hide the wolf cub?

He's on his chain!

Let's go!

He's been on his chain!

You damn wolf!

Get away from it! Drop the chain!

Move, move your ass!

Don't beat it!

Beat the wolf! Beat the wolf!

Stop!

What is going on here?!

I'll kill you!

What's all this?!

Let it go!

Wolves massacred our sheep!

Idiots!

It's the wild wolves

that are your problem!

And I am here...

...with the solution!

Are you all right?

Where is Bilig?

He is not well. He's been injured.

A'ba.

Tell me...

...what happened to you.

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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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