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  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m

Summary 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.

Directed By: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Written By: Jiang Rong, Alain Godard, Wei Lu, John Collee, Jean-Jacques Annaud

  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Releasing
  • 2 h 1 m

Wolf Totem

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
58
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary 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.

Directed By: Jean-Jacques Annaud

Written By: Jiang Rong, Alain Godard, Wei Lu, John Collee, Jean-Jacques Annaud

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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75
Sep 10, 2015
Wolf Totem has some of the most exciting, mind-blowing scenes of nature I've ever seen.
By Tirdad Derakhshani FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 10, 2015
There's no denying the beauty of the film's imagery, violent and tender, or the emotional power of the final moment in the boy-and-his-dog love story.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW

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Sep 10, 2015
It becomes difficult to separate the natives from their communist masters in terms of their treatment of their natural surroundings.
By Oleg Ivanov FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 10, 2015
The landscape and painstakingly trained wolves are the true stars.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 5, 2015
Annaud’s film can’t help itself galloping off in allegorical bursts barely under his control, and intriguingly off-course from the kind of bold messages of national conciliation officially sanctioned Chinese films tend to convey.
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50
Sep 8, 2015
Wolf Totem itself becomes a pitched battle for supremacy between the breathtaking glories of nature and the grinding banality of man. Here, as ever, nature loses.
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50
Sep 5, 2015
Tellingly, all of the film’s emotional highlights come from scenes involving the animal rather than the human protagonists and there are only very few scenes in which the two interact in a manner that feels entirely synergetic.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW
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Production Company China Film Co., Ltd., Reperage, Beijing Forbidden City Film, Mars Films, China Movie Channel, Beijing Phoenix Entertainment Co., Chinavision Media Group, Hérodiade, Loull Productions, Edko Films
Release Date Sep 11, 2015
Duration 2 h 1 m
Rating PG-13
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Website https://www.facebook.com/WolfTotemMovie?fref=ts
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Awards

Beijing Student Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Macau International Movie Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Beijing International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

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