Boys Dreams: Hunting In The Yukon

Gold and pelts, Klondike and Yukon, wolves and bears – words that conjure up a yearning for the great outdoors and not just for Jack London fans or Karl May readers. Many people dream of the life of the solitary ranger, tracker, scout, bear hunter and trapper. Twenty years ago, a man by the name of Frank Müller left his home in Germany, to learn to be a trapper. For eight years now, he has been running his own trapline. Only Frank may set traps here, no-one else. His stomping ground is huge; when he stands on the mountain behind his hut he cannot see the borders. Frank has many wooden huts on his trapline, so that he can always find shelter in time on the long trails in winter. Before he can travel the paths there on his snowmobile, he must first mark the way and trample it down firmly in snowshoes. Only when the trail is made can Frank set his traps. It is mostly sable that he catches. The film presents the everyday life of a trapper, but then continues to follow the path of the pelt from the trapper through the auction, the refinement processes, the studio of a furrier and onto the catwalk.

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