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Released
2015 · FILM

Wolf Totem

Directed by
Jean Jacques Annaud
Written by
Jiang Rong, Alain Godard
Runtime
116 min
Language
ZH
AdventureDrama

Synopsis

In 1969, a young student from Beijing named Chen Zhen is sent to live with nomadic herdsmen in Inner Mongolia. As civilization advances from the south and the nomads face their traditional enemies—the marauding wolves—from the north, both humans and animals, as well as residents and newcomers, struggle to find their true place in the world.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Reynald BertrandShot by Jean Marie DreujouScored by James Horner

Box Office

2015 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$123.2M

Budget$38.0M
Worldwide gross$123.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $211K — 0% of worldwide · International: $123.0M (100%)

Also known as

  • Der letzte Wolfde
  • Wolf Totemen
  • El último loboes
  • L'ultimo lupoit
  • Lang Tu Tengzh
  • 狼图腾zh

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