Like a scream in the wind
| Movie | |
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| German title | Like a scream in the wind (FRG) The trap (GDR) |
| Original title | The trap |
| Country of production | Canada , UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sidney Hayers |
| script | David D. Osborn |
| production | George H. Brown |
| music | Ron Goodwin |
| camera | Robert Krasker |
| cut | Tristam Cones |
| occupation | |
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Like a scream in the wind , in the GDR The Trap , (original title: The Trap ) is a Canadian-British feature film from 1966 directed by Sidney Hayers . The adventure film, which was shot in the pristine wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia , tells the unusual love story between an uncouth trapper and a mute orphan girl .
action
In northwestern Canada , 1850 : Numerous fur hunters who dream of a wife live in the sparsely populated country. A group of women who have been ransomed from prisons is brought to a settlement by ship. They are now being auctioned off among the settlers and hunters. The trapper Jean La Bête is late for the auction, angrily he gets drunk. He demands $ 1,000 from a fur trader who initially wants to hide from him, which he owes him. The intimidated trader reluctantly gives him the money. But the next morning the dealer's wife offers him the silent girl Eve, who lives in the house, for $ 1,000 as a wife. Eve watched her parents murdered as a child and has been silent ever since . The trapper gets involved in the trade and takes Eve into the wild.
However, the relationship between the unusual couple is initially characterized by great distance. Eve won't let gruff La Bête get near her. He teaches her about life in the forest and takes her with him on the hunt, but cannot win her trust. He continues to spend the nights alone in his bed. One day, while checking his traps, he is attacked by a puma . He can shoot the puma, but steps into his own trap with one foot. Badly injured, he tries to drag himself back to his hut. He is attacked by wolves. Eve waits in the hut and hears the approaching wolf howl. With the rifle she goes in search of La Bête and can chase the wolves away.
La Bête's foot is broken. He asks Eve to fetch the medicine man from the next Indian village, which is two days' journey away. The Canadian winter has already come, Eve puts on her snowshoes and begins a long, arduous walk over snow-covered mountain peaks. Finally she reaches the village, only to find it completely deserted. Eve returns to La Bête, whose leg is already burned . La Bêtes instructs Eve to amputate his leg with an ax . After La Bête has numbed herself with rum, the frightened young woman acts as instructed, her patient immediately passed out from pain. In the following years, Eve succeeds in nursing the trapper healthy. She learns to hunt alone and is able to provide for both. Eventually, after La Bête declares he could not live without her, they become intimate.
The morning after, Eva seems to regret her decision, leaves the hut and flees back to the settlement in a canoe. Here she is taken up again, but remains an outsider. The fur trader's wife tries to marry her off to a simple-minded young man who works in her husband's shop. But shortly before the planned wedding in the church, Eve flees again and returns to La Bête, who also pursues his previous livelihood as a hunter and trapper with Holzbein. La Bête gently touches her face and tells her to clean the house. Eve smiles. In the last scene, she stands in the doorway and watches La Bête hobble into the forest and sing a song. Eve chops wood and carries it into the cabin.
Reviews
"In the midst of the almost untouched wilderness of the Canadian forests, the film depicts the dramatic encounter between two outsiders around the middle of the 19th century with startling realism."
“Director Sidney Hayers combined western motifs with a romantic drama and captured fascinating nature shots in the wilderness of Canada. 'Like a Scream in the Wind' is now considered an important British film of the 1960s and lives above all from its excellent acting. Up to this point in time, main actor Oliver Reed had only been challenged to some extent, here he is simply brilliant in the role of the grumpy trapper La Bête. And Rita Tushingham is in no way inferior to him as a mute young woman. "
"Successful psychological drama enriched with adventurous and epic moments."
Web links
- Like a cry in the wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like a scream in the wind. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .