Hut in the Woods ( Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile ) ( A cabana (Hier unten - Hütte im Wald) )

Hut in the Woods (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile
Alternate Title: A cabana (Hier unten - Hütte im Wald)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
114 min + 113 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Hans Weingartner

Written By:
Hans Weingartner
Cüneyt Kaya

Actors:
Peter Schneider ..... Martin Blunt
Henrike von Kuick ..... Lena
Timur Massold ..... Viktor
Andreas Leupold ..... Martins Vater
Julia Jentsch ..... Petra
Eleonore Weisgerber ..... Frau Dr. König
Robert Schupp ..... Personalchef
Hans Brückner ..... Förster
Marco Noack ..... Polizist
Vlad Chiriac ..... Pfaller
Tom Jahn ..... Kontrolleur
Lisa Tomaschewsky
Hannes Wegener

Synopsis:

After his release from psychiatry, MARTIN is spit out by society: branded as mentally ill, he ends up on the streets. The young Ukrainian boy VIKTOR counts as a nuisance to everyone and is set to go to an orphanage after the death of his mother. After finding each other, however, they escape the city and build a hut in the woods to establish their own home within nature. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between the two and gives their life a new meaning. Martin gets to know young LENA and encourages her to abandon her non-free life as well.
But just as they seem to have found a kind of happiness, the machine strikes back: the hut is destroyed and Martin imprisoned. His PSYCHIATRIST tells him that Viktor is a just a product of his mind, his inner child. Martin refuses to believe that and starts to fight. He breaks free from prison and takes the gun from a policeman. His goal is clear: he must find Viktor and prove that the boy exists. That's the only way to make his dream come true: escape to Portugal together with Lena, and build a new hut in the woods there.

When a mentally unstable mathematician from Berlin ends up homeless, he befriends a similarly vulnerable young Ukrainian boy to find solace in nature in "Hut in the Woods," helmer Hans Weingartner's competent but fractionally too sentimental drama. Although thesps Peter Schneider and Timur Massold make an affecting duo, pic is infected with a twee, post-hippy strain of German Romanticism, while the script makes its big author's-message points with thudding obviousness, also a flaw inherent in Weingartner's earlier pics, "The Edukators" and "Reclaim Your Brain." After a couple of fest forays, pic will open domestically in February.

Two misfit boys find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The former psychiatric patient is told that his friend was just a figment of his imagination, but this provokes him to fight back and prove the boy's existence.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 31 October, 2012.