We are proud to announce that The Norwegian
Academy Award Committee has submitted Hans Petter Moland´s OUT STEALING HORSES as
the Norwegian entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the
Academy Awards®.
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STEALING HORSES has been selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best
International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards®. Nominations for the
92nd Academy Awards will be announced on January 13th, and the ceremony will
take place on February 9th at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The film has
had great success after its world premiere at the Berlinale Palast in February.
Favor of many critics, the film won the jury´s hearts at this year´s Berlin
International Film Festival and was awarded the Silver Bear for Outstanding
Artistic Contribution for its cinematography.
TrustNordisk
has closed a number of deals on OUT STEALING HORSES including Germany and
German-speaking Europe (MFA), China (DD Dream International Media), Benelux
(September Film Rights), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), Eastern
Europe (Discovery Film & Video), Greece (Videorama), Italy (Minerva
Pictures Group), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films), South Africa and
Africa (Comart Films), Russia (Russian World Vision), Taiwan (Proview
Entertainment), Singapore (Global Eagle Entertainment), Hungary (Vertigo
Media), Estonia (Estin Film) and Lithuania (Scanorama).
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STEALING HORSES is truly a high-profile project, both written and directed by
the award-winning Hans Petter Moland, and starring internationally acclaimed
Stellan Skarsgård in the lead role (IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE, 2014;
MELANCHOLIA, 2011; NYMPHOMANIAC, 2013). The film further stars Tobias Santelmann
(KON-TIKI, 2012; HOMELAND, 2015; CONGO, 2018) and Bjørn Floberg (INSOMNIA,
1997; KINGSMAN: SECRET SERVICE, 2014), among others.
The film is
based on the critically acclaimed international bestseller written by Per
Petterson, whose books have been translated into more than 50 languages. Out
Stealing Horses won the International Dublin Literary Award in 2007 and was on
New York Times list of “5 best fictional novels of 2007”.
Synopsis:
November
1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to
spending New Year´s Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives, he discovers he has a
neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer
Trond´s father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and
disappearance. And also the summer Trond grew up and smelled the scent of a
woman he longed for. The same woman Trond´s father was preparing to spend his
life with.
The film is produced by Håkon Øverås and Turid
Øversveen for Norway´s 4½ Fiksjon, with Zentropa in Denmark and Zentropa
International in Sweden. Further support came from Helgeland Film, Film i Vast
and Nordisk Film, as well as the Norwegian Film Institute, the Danish Film
Institute, the Swedish Film Institute and Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
For more information about the film, click here