Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002)


Samuel Le Bihan         Gregoire de Fronsac
Vincent Cassel          Jean-Francois de Morangias
Emilie Dequenne         Marianne de Morangias
Monica Bellucci         Sylvia
Jeremie Renier          Thomas d'Apcher
Mark Dacascos           Mani
Jacques Perrin          Thomas Age
Christian Marc          Serviteur Thomas Age
Karin Kristrom          Shepherdess on Hillside
Philippe Nahon          Jean Chastel
Virginie Darmon (II)    La Bavarde
Vincent Cespedes        Soldat
Hans Meyer (II)         Thomas d'Apcher
Jean-Paul Farre         Father Georges
Pierre Lavit            Jacques
Eric Prat               Capitaine Duhamel
Bernard Farcy           Laffont
Edith Scob              Madame de Morangias
Michel Puterflam        Eveque de Mende
Jean Yanne              Counte de Morangias
Jean-Loup Wolff         Duke de Moncan
Jean-Francois Stevenin  Henri Sardis
Emilie Dequenne         Marianne

Directed by:            Christophe Gans, William Gereghty, Pascal Laugier
Produced by:            Katrina Mattingley, Antoine Simkine, Samuel Hadida


Set in 1765, during the reign of Louis XV, an epic adventure based in part on a well-known French 
legend. In a rural province of France, a mysterious creature is leaving a trail of mutilated corpses 
across the countryside, savagely killing scores of women and children. Unseen, possessed of enormous 
strength and a seemingly near-human intelligence, the beast has eluded capture for years. Desperate 
to end the growing unrest of the populace, the King sends in a renowned scientist and his Iroquois 
blood brother, an unconventional team whose combined methods and capabilities may finally bring the 
beast down. But what these men find, when finally confronted with the true nature of the beast, is 
more shocking than anyone could have anticipated.

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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).