Dream Counter (Traumzähler)
Russian title: Считающий сны
Original title: Traumzähler
Short movie – Germany
Production year: 2000
Movie length: 17 minutes
Director: Jens Barlag
Writer: Jens Barlag
Movie description:
Meet Max, the streets look safer to him than his own home. On the streets he meets a man and Max life will probably change ... forever.
»Traumzähler« (also known as »Dream Counter«) has quite an intriguing title. They say your home is your castle. We have all heard that phrase at school, ever since kindergarten. Whatever problems you have in the world, once you close the front door of your home you are safe. The monsters of your nightmares can not get you once you are inside. But what if the monsters are inside the house as well? Or what if you’re a child forced to live with them?
The first scenes briefly explain why Max has decided to leave his home to head for the streets that seem safer ... Overall, the film has quite a depressing atmosphere – with the lead character barely speaking anything but his name – Max. Once on the run, 11-year-old Max stumbles upon an odd stranger who is obviously involved in drug dealing and has a disturbing knowledge about weapons. The stranger remembers the time when he was a runaway himself. So now he takes runaway boys under his wing – trying to teach them life lessons coming out of his own experience.
Max has escaped from his home, only to be returned there forcefully a few scenes later, but maybe now better prepared to fight the monsters that await him behind closed doors.
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