Boulder International Film Festival: Out Stealing Horses

It’s November 1999 and newly widowed Trond Sander (Stellan Skarsgård), 67, has retired to a remote village in Norway. Looking at his mysterious neighbor, he suddenly realizes that Lars is an old childhood friend from 1948 when Trond spent a blissful summer in a cabin by the river with his beloved father. Long afternoons hiking the breathtaking mountains and riding wild horses begin to blur into a series of images of carefree happiness, but tragedy and abandonment ended that summer, and the events—remembered in guilt—have haunted both men for their entire lifetimes. “Out Stealing Horses” was included in The New York Times “10 Best Books of 2007.”

Starring Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, Jon Ranes and Danica Curcic

Distributed by Magnolia Pictures