Director :Jean-Jacques Annaud Writers :Jiang Rong (novel), Jean-Jacques Annaud
(screenplay) Stars :Shaofeng Feng, Shawn Dou, Ankhnyam Ragchaa
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Wolf Totem (Chinese: 狼图腾, French: Le Dernier Loup) is a 2015 Chinese-language drama film based on the 2004 Chinese semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Lu Jiamin. Directed by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, the Chinese-French co-production features a Chinese student who is sent to Inner Mongolia to teach shepherds and instead learns about the wolf population, which is under threat by a government apparatchik.
The Beijing Forbidden City Film Corporation initially sought to hire a Chinese director, but filming humans with real wolves was considered too difficult. New Zealand director Peter Jackson was approached, but production did not take place. Annaud, whose 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet is banned in China, was hired despite the history. The film was produced under China Film Group and French-based Reperage. The French director, who had worked with animals on other films, acquired a dozen wolf pups in China and had them trained for several years by a Canadian animal trainer. With a production budget of US$40 million, Annaud filmed Wolf Totem in Inner Mongolia, where the book is set, for over a year.
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Directors : Peter Pau, Tianyu Zhao Writers : Junli Guo, Raymond Lei Jin (as Ray Lei Jin) Stars : ei-Er Bao, Winston Chao, Kun Chen
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Legendary Chinese anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
The film is set during the era of the Han Dynasty. Huo An (Chan), a Hun, serves as a commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty. They are tasked by the emperor to maintain stability between the warring 36 nations in the Silk Road region.
Huo An and his subordinates are framed for smuggling gold and are sent to the Wild Geese Gate, a frontier town of the Han Dynasty and undergo forced labor. At the frontier town the many nations and people that represented labor force were distrustful and did not assist each other in the completion of the restoration of the Wild Geese Gate.
Meanwhile, in the west, a Roman general named Lucius (Cusack) flees with his legion to the east. He smuggles Publius (Waite), heir of the ruling Roman Consul, to the east at the behest of the Parthian Empire to save him from death and a ploy by his older brother, Tiberius (Brody), who schemes to takeover the position as heir to the Consul for himself. Lucius arrives at the outskirts of the Wild Geese Gate, with plans to assault the frontier town with his legion. Their aim is to find a place for the Roman legions to rest. In anticipation of the confrontation, Huo An takes the armor and sword of the previous commanding officer of the Wild Geese Gate and goes out to meet Lucius. Lucuis and Huo battle in an evenly-matched sword play. Before the match ends with a clear winner, a sandstorm approaches threatening the Romans and all others who are outside of the city walls. Realizing this, plus seeing Publius in a very dire state, reluctantly leads Huo to offer the Romans refuge.
During their stay, Lucius, after admiring the sword of the previous commanding officer of the Wild Geese Gate, tells Huo the plight of Publius and his legions. The next day, the current commanding officer of the Wild Geese Gate receives a royal edict to complete the restoration work of the fortress within 15 days. The commanding officer deems this to be impossible and pleads for Huo An to enlist more men from China to help with the construction efforts. Huo An instead asks the Roman legionaries for their expertise and assistance to complete the task. In line with Huo An's mentor, the previous commanding offer, the reconstruction effort gets all the different peoples and nations of the region to work together as one and peace is achieved in what was once a chaotic and ethnically-separated city. Because of the success of the reconstruction and the development of a general feeling of brotherhood in the city, the young Publius appoints Huo as a First Centurion, presenting him with a Roman pugio.
During this time, Tiberius (Brody) and his army, who have pursued Lucius along the Silk Road, approaches the Wild Geese Gate. Huo An then informs Lucius he will go to his allies to recruit an army from his long-lost friend to fight against Tiberius, but is ultimately betrayed by one of his surbodinates and delayed, while Lucius is imprisoned and tortured. Huo manages to escape, but his wife is killed protecting one of her escaping students. Help arrives in the form of a group of tribal warriors whom Huo previously encountered.
Huo learns about Lucius's fate and attempts to rescue Lucius by pretending to surrender to Tiberius. He finds Lucius, whom Tiberius has blinded in spite, and Lucius entrusts his legion to Hou An shortly before pleading with Hou An to end his misery, which Hou reluctantly does. A climatic battle ensues with Tiberius's Army and Huo An's allies. Huo An's army and allies are almost completely defeated before a Parthian Army arrives. They accuse Tiberius of murdering his father and blinding the rightful heir to the Roman Consulate. Huo An and Tiberius engage in one last epic one-on-one battle. Tiberius then stabs himself after losing and with his dying breath silently sings the Roman legionary anthem.
