Chinese Movie Night - Wolf Totem

The University of Idaho Confucius Institute would like to invite you to join us for our Chinese Movie Night! Each film will have a brief introduction by our visiting South China University of Technology instructor. The audience will have the opportunity to discuss the film and its cultural significance at its conclusion with our visiting instructor who is a specialist in Chinese cinema and film culture. The film for May 11, 2016 will be Jean-Jacques Annaud's Wolf Totem. Chen Zhen, a Beijing student, travels to Inner Mongolia during China's Cultural Revolution in 1967 to live among the nomadic shepherds and serve as a teacher. Threatened from the rapid advance of modernity from the southlands and their traditional enemies - marauding wolves from the north - the Mongolian herdsman along with Zhen must find harmony within their transforming world. This film is based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Lu Jiamin. Admission is free and open to the public.