WOLF

FARKAS impresses from the outset with its images from Northern Russia. Reindeer pull sleighs through snow-covered expanses, people with faces hardened by the climate live in villages made up of wooden houses, herders tend their reindeer. Nikolai Sergeevich travels to this remote territory from the city because the reindeer breeders have asked for his help. Wolves are killing unusually high numbers of dogs and reindeer. But they don’t feed on their prey, they only drink the blood – like vampires. Nikolai Sergeevich is said to speak the language of animals, and the locals want him to negotiate with the wolves. Nobody knows for sure whether the stranger really possesses special gifts or is simply a charlatan. Whatever the truth may be: He successfully banishes the forces of evil from the area.