Picnic with bears

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Movie
German title Picnic with bears
Original title A walk in the woods
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 6
Rod
Director Ken Kwapis
script Rick Curb ,
Bill Holderman
production Chip Diggins ,
Bill Holderman,
Robert Redford
music Nathan Larson
camera John Bailey
cut Julie Garces ,
Carol Littleton
occupation
The author of the book "Picnic with Bears", Bill Bryson (2005)

Picnic with Bears (original title: A Walk in the Woods ) is an American film from 2015. The film is based on the book “Picnic with Bears” (also in the original “A Walk in the Woods” ) by Bill Bryson . The director was Ken Kwapis . The main roles were played by Robert Redford and Nick Nolte .

action

When the travel writer Bill Bryson comes home from a funeral and wants to take a few more steps, he stops behind his house in front of the sign of the Appalachian Trail leading past . Despite his advanced age, he wants to know it again and looks for information on the Internet. His wife Catherine is not enthusiastic about the idea and puts reports of murdered and bear-mangled hikers on his desk. She would only let him go if Bill took a trusted friend on the tour. Bill calls his friends, but they - all no longer young - say no. One day, Bill's old friend named Stephen Katz calls and asks if Bill would take him. Bill accepts.

He had doubts when he saw Stephen get off the little plane. Stephen is heavy and awkward. He also had a drinking problem . Yet they set out.

On the inclines, you will be short of breath and younger hikers will quickly run past you. Fortunately, they can hang out from the annoying hiker Mary Ellen, who has joined them in the meantime. In the most beautiful sunshine, a young hiker warns the two of trendy snowfalls. The two of them laugh and a short time later they find themselves in heavy snow. At the end of the day, a hut and a warm shower would be welcome. But the hostel only has space available in the group room (“Welcome to the Stalag !”). To make matters worse, the overweight Stephen breaks through to Bill from the top floor of the double bed.

When crossing a stony river bed, both of them fall into the water with their luggage. Fortunately, the sun is shining and they can dry themselves and their belongings.

You are staying in a hotel, whose manager Jeannie Bill builds up a certain closeness, which, however, does not deepen. In a laundromat next to a motel, Stephen meets an equally obese woman whose husband , swinging a baseball bat, forces the two hikers to jump out of the motel's rear windows a little later.

Neither of them took the bear question seriously. One night they see from their tents that two black bears are pounding on their supplies. Bill can just read a book about how to drive away bears: You have to make yourself as big as possible. So they stomp towards the animals in their tents. These actually disappear, but with parts of the provisions.

This is followed by a section of the trail that is only recommended for experienced hikers because sometimes only a narrow path has been cut out of the rock face. At a particularly narrow part of the path, both fall onto a deep ledge. A little further on, they would have fallen into the raging river hundreds of meters below. Although they try to knot a rope out of clothes, they fail to get back on the path. While the stars form a breathtaking panorama above them, Bill and Stephen imagine that they would have to starve to death at this point. But the next day, young hikers help them back up to the path.

You have run hundreds of kilometers and yet you haven't made half of the trail. So they decide to stop the hike. Bill takes Stephen to the Greyhound bus .

At home, Catherine is overjoyed to be able to hug her husband again. On his desk Bill finds a number of postcards with short snippy messages that Stephen sent to Bill during the hike. On the last one, Stephen asks what they want to do next. Throughout the hike, when Stephen asked for another book, Bill had replied that there would be no new book. Now he sits down at the computer and begins to write: “Picnic with bears” is the title.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for picnic with bears . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 262 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for picnic with bears . Youth Media Commission .