Out Stealing Horses
August 5, 2020
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Based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson. Trond (Stellan Skarsgård) retires to solitary life in the Norwegian woods after the death of his wife, but the past resurfaces.
122 minutes. Not rated. Directed by Hans Petter Moland.
November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up.
OUT STEALING HORSES is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, which received several important international awards and was included in The New York Times ’10 Best Books of 2007 (Fiction)’. Petterson’s novels have been translated into more than 50 languages.
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