Wolf Totem

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Wolf Totem is a 2015 historical adventure drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, adapted from Jiang Rong’s novel about a young Chinese student’s transformative encounters with wolves on the Mongolian steppe during the Cultural Revolution.

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Wolf Totem canonical 2
Wolf Totem (novel) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
historical adventure drama film
adaptationOf Chinese novel Wolf Totem
alternateTitle Lang tu teng
Le Dernier Loup
authorOfSourceWork Jiang Rong
basedOn Wolf Totem self-linksurface differs
surface form: Wolf Totem (novel)
cinematographer Jean-Marie Dreujou
coProduction Chinese-French co-production
countryOfOrigin China
France
director Jean-Jacques Annaud
distributor China Film Co., Ltd.
surface form: China Film Group Corporation
filmingLocation Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia
genre adventure film
drama film
historical film
language Mandarin
Mongolian
leadActor Ankhnyam Ragchaa
Feng Shaofeng
Shawn Dou
mainCharacter Chen Zhen
musicBy James Horner
notableFor depiction of wolves trained specifically for the film
productionCompany China Film Co., Ltd.
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protagonistOccupation student
publicationYearOfSourceWork 2004
releaseDateInChina 2015-02-19
releaseYear 2015
runtimeMinutes 121
screenwriter Alain Godard
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Lu Wei
setInPeriod Cultural Revolution
setInPlace Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
surface form: Inner Mongolia
theme coming-of-age
cultural conflict
environmentalism
man and nature

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Jean-Jacques Annaud notableWork Wolf Totem
Jean-Jacques Annaud directed Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem basedOn Wolf Totem self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Wolf Totem (novel)