Out Stealing Horses (film)

In 1999, 67-year-old widower Trond Sander moves to a remote cabin in the area close to where he grew up in Eastern Norway. He intends to live isolated, but soon becomes acquainted with his neighbor, Lars. Trond slowly realizes that he remembers Lars from his childhood because he is the younger brother of Jon, his best friend from that time.

Because of Lars, Trond begins to recall and reflect on his youth during the Nazi-occupation of Norway through a series of flashbacks.

He particularly remembers how he and Jon would go out and "steal horses", which actually meant that they rode local horses bareback without permission. He also remembers how Lars accidentally killed his own twin brother after playing around with a rifle Jon had left loaded after a hunting trip. Trond is also confronted with bad memories about how own his father, who he later learned took part in the Norwegian resistance movement, abandoned him together with Jon's mother during the war.

• Stellan Skarsgård. - Trond. Jon Ranes plays the young Trond
• Tobias Santelmann - Trond's father
• Danica Curcic - Jon's mother
• Pål Sverre Hagen - Jon's father
• Sjur Vatne Brean - Jon

The film was shot in rural Norway, in Trysil Municipality, and also in Lithuania's nature parks and the cities of Kaunas and Vilnius.^[4][5][6]