Taglines: The year is 1766… The hunt for a killer has begun.
Brotherhood of the Wolf movie storyline. In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A ‘beast’ that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature.
By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people, to this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, wolf? hyena? or something supernatural? Whatever it was, shepherds had the same life-expectancy as the red-suited guys in ‘Star Trek’. The Beast is a popular myth in France, albeit one rooted firmly in reality; somewhat surprisingly it is little known to the outside world, and perhaps incredibly it has never been made into a movie. Until now…
Based on the true story of the Beast of the Gevaudan that terrorized France in the mid-XVIIIth century, the movie aims to tell first and explain afterwards. In the first part, a special envoy of the King of France, altogether biologist, explorer and philosopher, arrives in the Gevaudan region, in the mountainous central part of France.
The Beast has been attacking women and children for months and nobody has quite been able to harm it or even take a good look at it. In the second part, our hero Chevalier de Fronsac will not only have to fight the Beast, but also ignorance, bigotry and conspiracy and will rely on two women, one an aristocrat, the other a prostitute, as well as the enigmatic Mani, an Iroquois he met in New-France (Canada).
Brotherhood of the Wolf (French: Le Pacte des loups) is a 2001 French historical action horror film directed by Christophe Gans, co-written by Gans and Stéphane Cabel, and starring Samuel Le Bihan, Mark Dacascos, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.
The film is loosely based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and the famous legend of the Beast of Gévaudan; parts of the film were shot at Château de Roquetaillade. The film has several extended swashbuckling fight scenes, with martial arts performances by the cast mixed in, making it unusual for a historical drama.
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001)
Directed by: Christophe Gans
Btarring: Vincent Cassel, Emilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jérémie Rénier, Mark Dacascos, Philippe Nahon, Christian Marc, Virginie Darmon, Jean-Paul Farré
Screenplay by: Stephane Cabel, Christophe Gans
Production Design by: Guy-Claude François
Cinematography by: Dan Laustsen
Film Editing by: Xavier Loutreuil, Sébastien Prangère, David Wu
Costume Design by: Dominique Borg
Set Decoration by: Jacques Aucomte, Denis Bourgier, Catherine Jarrier-Prieur
Music by: Joseph LoDuca
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and gore, and sexuality / nudity.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: January 31, 2001
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