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Out Stealing Horses

2019 · 122 min

A quiet, wintry meditation on memory and loss, unfolding slowly with a chill of regret and buried sorrow.

Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Genres: Drama
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Ćurčić

Overview: 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.

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Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Genres: Drama
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Ćurčić

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
grief
betrayal
isolation
family
Places: countryside
single country house
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	2
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Hans Petter Moland
Written by: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Ćurčić, Pål Sverre Hagen, Bjørn Floberg, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Jon Ranes, Gard B. Eidsvold
Music: Kaspar Kaae
Cinematography: Thomas Hardmeier, Rasmus Videbæk
Runtime: 122 min
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Languages: Italian, Norwegian, Swedish

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