In Wolf Country

SYNOPSIS

100 years after their extinction, wolves are returning to Germany, to an industrial country full of people. They are coming back because we let them. Democracy decided this. Their return is an expression of the change in the way we deal with nature: We are finally ready to share our rule over the earth again, because we realize: We will perish if we continue to behave like autocrats.

“In Wolf Country” explores the life of our new neighbors. Wolves don’t live in an enchanted wilderness in nature reserves, but in our very midst. They find niches in the cultivated landscape. They retreat into the deserts of abandoned lignite mines, they use our paths, cross highways and roam through villages. Their pups play with our waste and drink from the furrows left by machines in the soil. Sometimes wolves eat livestock. And many people have a primal fear of them. The wolves’ reclamation of the land challenges us – administration, science, agriculture: researchers, shepherds, administrators, politicians, conservationists and many others have to work in an atmosphere of polarizing and polemic debates about wolves. Yet the animals are merely roommates, not raiders.

A cinematic tale from a world many have strong opinions about, but few really know: The world of wolves in Germany.

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