Empire of the Wolves is a 2005 movie

Film

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 directed

Film director

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 by Chris Nahon

Chris Nahon

Chris Nahon is a French film director best known for directing the films Kiss of the Dragon, Empire of the Wolves, and Blood: The Last Vampire.- Filmography :-External links:...

, written by Christian Clavier

Christian Clavier

Christian Clavier is a French actor. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier.-Biography:After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris —he started his acting career with the...

, Jean-Christophe Grangé

Jean-Christophe Grangé

Jean-Christophe Grangé is a French mystery writer, journalist, and screenwriter.Grangé was born at Paris. He was a journalist before setting up his own press agency L & G.-Bibliography:* Le Vol des cigognes...

, Chris Nahon

Chris Nahon

Chris Nahon is a French film director best known for directing the films Kiss of the Dragon, Empire of the Wolves, and Blood: The Last Vampire.- Filmography :-External links:...

 and Franck Ollivier, and starring Jean Reno

Jean Reno

Jean Reno is a French actor. Working in French, English, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat, but also in European productions such as the...

, Arly Jover

Arly Jover

Araceli "Arly" Jover is a Spanish actress.-Biography:Araceli Jover was born in Melilla, a Spanish region in Northern Africa. After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to Majorca, in the Balearic Islands because of her father's work as a soldier...

, and Jocelyn Quivrin

Jocelyn Quivrin

Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Syriana.-Childhood and education:Jocelyn Quivrin was born in Dijon on 14 February 1979...

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Plot summary

Arly Jover plays Anna Heymes, a stylish 31 year old Parisian housewife, who experiences nightmares and hallucinations related to a series of gruesome murders in the city. At the same time, a duo of policemen, the unorthodox Schiffer (Jean Reno) and the cautious officer Nerteaux (Jocelyn Quivrin), work to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders. The plot thickens when Anna discovers that she has been subjected to intensive reconstructive surgery

Oral and maxillofacial surgery

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, which concealed her Turkish heritage

Turkish people

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. A series of events escalates into a confrontation with the Turkish mafia and the death of Anna's would-be assassin

Assassination

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Cast

• Jean Reno
  Jean Reno
  Jean Reno is a French actor. Working in French, English, Spanish and Italian, he has appeared not only in numerous successful Hollywood productions such as The Pink Panther, Godzilla, The Da Vinci Code, Mission: Impossible, Ronin and Couples Retreat, but also in European productions such as the...
  
  as Jean-Louis Schiffer
• Arly Jover
  Arly Jover
  Araceli "Arly" Jover is a Spanish actress.-Biography:Araceli Jover was born in Melilla, a Spanish region in Northern Africa. After living there for five years, her family was forced to move to Majorca, in the Balearic Islands because of her father's work as a soldier...
  
   as Anna Heymes
• Jocelyn Quivrin
  Jocelyn Quivrin
  Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Syriana.-Childhood and education:Jocelyn Quivrin was born in Dijon on 14 February 1979...
  
   as Paul Nerteaux
• Laura Morante
  Laura Morante
  Laura Morante is an Italian film actress.She was born in Santa Fiora, province of Grosseto , and is the niece of renowned Italian novelist Elsa Morante.-Career:...
  
   as Mathilde Urano
• Philippe Bas as Laurent
• David Kammenos as Azer
• Didier Sauvegrain as Dr. Ackerman
• Patrick Floersheim as Charlier
• Etienne Chicot as Amien
• Albert Dray as Le lieutenant
• Vernon Dobtcheff
  Vernon Dobtcheff
  Vernon Dobtcheff is a French and British actor.Dobtcheff was born in Nîmes, France, to a family of Russian descent. He attended Ascham Preparatory School in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, in the 1940s, where he won the Acting Cup...
  
   as Kudseyi
• Élodie Navarre
  Élodie Navarre
  - Selected filmography :* Love Me If You Dare * Grande École * Empire of the Wolves * Conversations with My Gardener * The Art of Love -External links:...
  
   as La fliquette
• Philippe du Janerand as Le légiste
• Corentin Koskas as L'interne
• Jean-Pierre Martins
  Jean-Pierre Martins
  Jean-Pierre Martins is a French actor and musician.-Biography:In 2009 played the lead role in Gregoire Sivan monster movie King Crab Attack! and in the both thriller films The Beast and La horde...
  
   as Professeur Ravi
• Jean-Marc Huber as Gurdilek
• Donatienne Dupont as Clothilde
• Jean-Michel Tinivelli as Caraccili
• Sandra Moreno as Marie-Sophie
• Laurence Gormezano as Chantal
• Vincent Grass
  Vincent Grass
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   as Marius
• Guillaume Lamant-Deboudt as Lacroux
• Emmanuelle Escourrou as Gozar
• Akim Colour as L'ouvrier
• Gérard Touratier as Gruss
• Aurélie Meriel as La secrétaire
• Emre Kinay as Le policier
• Robert Hoehn
• Arnaud Duléry as Un flic médico-légal
• Jacques Curry as Roman

Production

It is loosely based on a novel by Jean-Christophe Grange. The film was shot in the town of Göreme

Göreme

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 in Cappadocia

Cappadocia

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 as well as in Istanbul

Istanbul

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, Turkey

Turkey

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 and finally in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

France

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Release

The film premiered on 20 April 2005 in France

France

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 and was on 30 July 2005 part of the Fantasy Film Fest in München.