“The Last Wolf” Annaud made in China – The Obs

In 2009, a major Chinese production company proposes to Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of “Wolf Totem” eco-autobiographical saga whose translation then just been published in France. “After a few pages, I was transported” remembers Annaud.

The work, which is a best seller in China, has everything to seduce the director of “The Lover” and “Bear”: the pristine Inner Mongolia, rude pastoral tribe living in symbiosis with the wolves of the steppe, young Chinese city immersed in this world “primitive” , which will experience an unforgettable experience.

But I was still a little aback. When I met the producer Zhang Qiang, I reminded him that I had made a film about Tibet. He said, “China has changed, and we need you.”

She had indeed much change Or she really needed. Jean-Jacques Annaud. How to forget it had done in 1997 to prevent the shooting of “Seven Years in Tibet,” large mural on the “Land of Snows” through the friendship between in Lhasa, a Austrian mountaineer (played by Brad Pitt) and the very young Dalai Lama, on the eve of the Chinese invasion? Today, Brad Pitt is still banned in China, and Beijing is Always On