Leader of the pack

Animals are notoriously troublesome when it comes to shooting films. They don't always obey the director, and when they do they often steal the show.

But 69-year-old French director Jean-Jacques Annaud - with two widely acclaimed films about animals under his belt, The Bear and Two Brothers - loves the challenge.

Annaud's latest film deals with wolves. Adapted from the Chinese bestseller Wolf Totem, by Jiang Rong, the film follows a young man's reflections on Han and Mongolian culture during his stay on the grasslands in 1967.