Out Stealing Horses

Synopsis

The film is set in 1999. The 67-year-old Trond has recently started living a solitary life and looks forward to celebrating New Year’s Eve in 2000 alone. When winter arrives, Trond discovers that he has a neighbor, a man he knew in 1948. That summer, when he was 15, his father prepared him to bear the burden of an impending betrayal and disappearance. It was the same summer that Trond grew up and sensed the fragrance of a woman he longed for – the same woman his father was ready to spend his life with.

Production Facts

Film i Väst is a co-producer of Hans Petter Moland's "Out Stealing Horses". In the lead role is Stellan Skarsgård, who also starred in Moland's "In Order of Disappearance", which was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014 (also a co-production with Film i Väst). Other actors include Bjørn Floberg ("Insomnia", 1997; "Kingsman: The Secret Service", 2014) and Anders Baasmo Christiansen ("Kon-Tiki", 2012; "In Order of Disappearance", 2014; "The King's Choice", 2016).

The film is based on Per Petterson's global bestseller " Ut og stjæle hester" from 2003, which has also been internationally praised.

The film is produced by Turid Øversveen and Karin Julsrud at 4 ½ Fiksjon in co-production with Zentropa Entertainments5, Zentropa Sweden, Helgeland Film, Film i Väst, and Nordisk Film, with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Danish Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute, and Nordic Film & TV Fund, in collaboration with NRK, DR, and SVT. Parts of the film were shot in Region Västra Götaland.