The last trapper
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The last trapper |
| Original title | Le Dernier Trappeur |
| Country of production | France , Canada , Germany , Italy , Switzerland |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
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| Director | Nicolas Vanier |
| script | Nicolas Vanier |
| production | Jean Pierre Bailly |
| music | Krishna Levy |
| camera | Thierry Machado |
| cut | Ives Chaput |
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The Last Trapper is a semi-documentary film about the life of one of the last real trappers in the Canadian Rockies . The film tells the very hard but also beautiful life of the trapper Norman Winther, who lives mainly from nature with his wife, the Nahanni Indian Nebraska, and a couple of huskies in the Rockies. You accompany Norman through all four seasons , building a house, on his small trips on horse or sledge to larger cities to buy materials, learn the attitude of such people to nature and the considerations of the trapper, this life because of the great deforestation and the falling fur prices in Canada to give up.
The film started in Germany on January 5, 2006, in France the film was attended by over two million viewers.
action
It's winter in the Yukon Territory in the Rocky Mountains and the trapper Norman Winther leads a peaceful life with his Indian wife Nebraska, two horses and seven huskies in a log cabin in a beautiful area. In spring he inspects his "territory" every day on foot, horse or canoe and goes hunting while his wife collects fruit, cooks, looks after the dogs or drives with him. Both live almost exclusively from nature without electronics , and Norman does most of the repair work with materials that nature offers. During his exploration trips, the trapper discovers that the area has already been heavily deforested and offers less habitat for animals. This means that Norman can kill fewer animals and earn less money from selling fur. During his visit to Dawson City , too, he notices, when he has to sell furs at ever lower prices, that this life seems to be less and less worthwhile. During this stay in the city, his most faithful dog Nanuk, who had accompanied him on all trips, died in a car accident. Back at his house, Norman and Nebraska decide that they have to move to another area because of the deforestation and that they need a new log cabin. The construction work, both of them doing completely alone, lasts all summer, and it seems to be running out of time to finish before the snowfall. When the house is almost complete, Norman takes another trip to Dawson City to stay with a friend's horses for the winter and to get window panes and other supplies for the new cabin. When he is about to get on a seaplane to drive off and bring the heavy loads to the hut, a friend holds him back to give him a present: a young female sled dog to replace Nanuk, as he still has a dog for his sled dog team needs. Norman is initially not very enthusiastic about this dog, although the female dog is descended from a successful racing bitch who won the Iditarod race and is of the opinion that he needs a lead dog, not a racing dog. But when the latter saves his life in winter by persuading the other dogs to return to Norman, who has broken into an ice hole on a lake and cannot get out, he changes his mind. The film continues with the everyday life of the trapper, explaining the relationship of a trapper to nature and saying that humans should never have given up contact with nature.
production
The production of the film, especially the shooting, was very complex. As some of the films were shot at temperatures below −50 ° C, the material had to undergo months of extensive testing in order to withstand severe temperature fluctuations (from +20 ° C inside the hut to −40 ° C outside). The large amount of material was difficult to transport in this wilderness, so only transport by plane was an option.
Reviews
- According to the lexicon of international films , it is a “visually stunning nature film with dramatic insertions of well-known adventure clichés” .
Web links
- The Last Trapper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The last trapper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .