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- Brotherhood of the Wolf [2002] [DVD/Video – DVD]
- Brotherhood of the Wolf [2002] [DVD/Video – DVD]
- Pactes des Loups [Edition Deluxe] [2007] [DVD/Video – DVD]
- Pacte des Loups [2007] [DVD/Video – DVD]
- Brotherhood of the Wolf [Director's Cut] [2 Discs] [2008] [DVD/Video – Other]
Brotherhood of the Wolf [Special Edition] [3 Discs]
French legend has it that a creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan -- a huge, wolf-like monster -- was responsible for the violent deaths of over 100 persons in the mid-18th century, and this horror fantasy blends the lore of this fabled beast with a story of two men who set out to capture it. After a number of mutilated corpses begin appearing across the French countryside, naturalist Chevalier Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan) is dispatched by the King to find and capture the animal responsible for the killings. Mani (Mark Dacascos), an Indian from Canada and an experienced hand in the wilds, is hired to assist de Fronsac in his work. Gregoire's assignment earns him the acquaintance of Marianne de Morangias (Emilie Dequenne), the lovely daughter of the idly wealthy Count de Morangias (Jean Yanne), but Gregoire receives a much chillier welcome from her brother Jean-Francois (Vincent Cassel), who, despite having lost an arm to a lion in Africa, is quite the huntsman himself. As Gregoire and Mani arrive in the village of Gevaudan, they're drawn to a local house of prostitution, where the animalistic allure and supernatural powers of Sylvia (Monica Bellucci) prove to have a profound effect on the naive Gregoire. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided the special-effects expertise for the creation of the Beast of Gevaudan. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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Product Details
| UPC: | 824255050159 |
|---|---|
| Release Date: | November 5, 2002 |
| Format: | DVD |
| Screen: | Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV |
| Sound: | Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel, Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1) |
| Language: | English, French |
| Subtitles: | English, French |
| Disc Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 |
| Genre: | Horror |
Review
It may have too many costumes (and minutes of celluloid) for kung-fu fans, and too much action for the period piece crowd, but the French hit Le Pacte des Loups is a stylish visual exercise, full of gristle and vigor, by anyone's standards. In some ways the film Peter Hyams' The Musketeer could have been, in others resembling the gritty swordplay milieu of John McTiernan's The 13th Warrior, Christophe Gans' Brotherhood of the Wolf (as it is known in English) may best be categorized as a child of the post-Matrix era. With freeze-frame action that shifts abruptly in and out of slow motion, and a wandering camera that skims snow-swept hills and rainy forests, it's a restless film that convincingly applies space-age visuals to 18th century France. The plot strays from coherence on more than one occasion, structurally scattershot, but to the credit of screenwriters Gans and Stephane Cabel, most of the loose ends wrap up by the close. The virtuosity of the fisticuffs and swordplay, including some surprise weaponry and booby traps that seem more like big-budgeted Hollywood creations than products of French cinema, should please those looking for some fancy ass-kicking. Where Brotherhood of the Wolf stumbles a bit is in trying to straddle too many genres. It can't blend the standard scares of a monster movie with the quill pens of a costume drama and the roundhouse kicks of a Hong Kong actioner without seeming a little exhausted by the last of the 143 minutes. Still, it's difficult to watch the characters using various weapons to annihilate pumpkins, the pulp splattering hither and non, without cracking a grin at the audacious visual energy of it all. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie GuideCredits
| Name | Role |
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| Mark Dacascos | Actor — Mani |
| Jean-Paul Farr | Actor — Pere Georges |
| Bernard Fresson | Actor — Mercier |
| Johan Leysen | Actor — Beauterne |
| Hans Meyer | Actor — Marquis d'Apcher |
| André Penvern | Actor — Buffon |
| Eric Prat | Actor — Capitaine Duhamel |
| Edith Scob | Actor — Mme. De Morangias |
| Jean-Loup Wolff | Actor — Duc de Moncan |
| Jacques Perrin | Actor — Thomas Age |
| Jean-François Stévenin | Actor — Henri Sardis |
| Jean Yanne | Actor — Le Comte de Morangias |
| Michel Puterflam | Actor — Eveque de Mende |
| Bernard Farcy | Actor — Laffont |
| Monica Bellucci | Actor — Sylvia |
| Samuel Le Bihan | Actor — Gregoire de Fronsac |
| Charles Maquignon | Actor — Valet Maison Teissier |
| Philippe Nahon | Actor — Jean Chastel |
| Vincent Cassel | Actor — Jean-Francois de Morangias |
| Virginie Darmon | Actor — La Bavarde |
| Francois Hadji-Lazaro | Actor — Machemort |
| Frankye Pain | Actor — La Tessier |
| Jean-Pierre Jackson | Actor — Noble Diner |
| Émilie Dequenne | Actor — Marianne de Morangias |
| Jérémie Renier | Actor — Thomas d'Apcher |
| Juliette Lamboley | Actor — Cecile |
| Karin Kristrom | Actor — Bergere du Rocher |
| Nicolas Vaude | Actor — Maxime des Forets |
| Nicky Naude | Actor — La Felure |
| Daniel Herroin | Actor — Blondin |
| Christian Marc | Actor — Serviteur Thomas Age |
| Vincent Cespedes | Actor — Soldat |
| Pierre Lavit | Actor — Jacques |
| Christian Adam | Actor — Noble Age |
| Gaelle Cohen | Actor — La Loutre |
| Virginie Arnaud | Actor — La Pintade |
| Isabelle Le Nouvel | Actor — Brunette Prostitute |
| Edit Cassou | Actor — Prostitutees Tessier |
| Delphine Hivernet | Actor — Valentine |
| Gaspard Ulliel | Actor — Louis |
| Pierre Castagne | Actor — Cecile's Father |
| Stephane Pioffet | Actor — Paysan |
| Eric Laffitte | Actor — Un Villageois |
| Eric Delcourt | Actor — Camp Beauterne's Help |
| Christelle Droy | Actor — Bergere Dollines |
| Andres Fuentes | Actor — Paysan Chaumiere |
| Nadine Marcovici | Actor — Jeanne |
| Jean-Claude Braquet | Actor — Pierre |
| David Bogino | Actor — Lanceur de Couteaux |
| Emmanuel Booz | Actor — Officer Bucher |
| Pascal Laugier | Actor — Machemort's Assistant |
| Christophe Gans | Director |
| Pascal Laugier | Director |
| Christophe Gans | Screenwriter |
| Stephane Cabel | Screenwriter |
| Claudine Strasser | Screenwriter |
| Valentine Tracelet | Screenwriter |
| Ray Bloch | Screenwriter |
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