Movies » Horse Thieves (ov Voleurs de Chevaux)
Drama
FORUM FILMS and VERSUS PRODUCTION present
HORSE THIEVES
a film by MICHA WALD
ADRIEN JOLIVET - GREGOIRE COLIN - GREGOIRE LEPRINCE-RINGUET -FRANÇOIS-RENE DUPONT
VERSUS PRODUCTION present acoproduction Belgique / France / Canada with REZO PRODUCTIONS, FORUM FILMS, RTBF (Télévision belge).« Voleurs de Chevaux » written and directed by MICHA WALD - director of photography JEAN-PAUL DE ZAEYTIJD - sound VERONIQUE GABILLAUD, CLAUDE BEAUGRAND and LUC BOUDRIAS - editor SUSANA ROSSBERG – production designer ANDRE FONSNY – costume designer NADIA CHMILEWSKY – make-up artist LISA SCHONKER – music JOHANN JOHANNSSON, STEPHAN MICUS, JEF MERCELIS - produced by JACQUES-HENRI BRONCKART - associated producers OLIVIER BRONCKART, JEAN-MICHEL REY, PHILIPPE LIEGEOIS, RICHARD LALONDE, ARLETTE ZYLBERBERG.
With the help of Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique et des Télédistributeurs wallons, with the participation of Wallimage. with the support of Eurimages, with the participation of Centre National de la Cinématographie, with the support of Centre Images – Région Centre, with the participation of Canal+.With the participation of SODEC (Société de développement des entreprises culturelles – Québec), Téléfilm Canada, Crédit d'impôt Cinéma et Télévision Québec – Gestion Sodec, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit.. With the support of Programme Media Plus de la Communauté Européenne.
CREDITS (NON CONTRACTUALS)
Awards and festivals
Festival de Cannes 2007 (46e Semaine Internationale de la Critique)
5e Festival du Film Européen de Bruxelles (Belgique)
5th Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia (Mexique)
51st London Film Festival (UK)
36e Festival Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal, Canada)
16e Quinzaine du Cinéma Francophone (Paris, France)
21e Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie (Canada)
9th International Film Festival Film By The Sea (Vlissingen, Pays-Bas)
12th Pusan International Film Festival (Corée)
37th Kyiv International Film Festival "Molodist" (Ukraine)
2nd Rome Film Fest (New Cinema Network) (Italie)
10th Skopje Film Festival (Macédoine)
35th Belgrade International Film Festival (Serbie)
29th Noordelijk Film Festival (Pays-Bas)
4e Festival de Cinema Do Amazonas (brésil) - PRIX DU JURY
18th Stockholm International Film Festival (Suède)
Reykjavik Int'l Film Festival 2008 (Islande)
Mumbai Film Festival 2008 (Inde)
7th Tiburon International Film Festival (Californie, USA)
Festival Cinefranco 2008 (Toronto, Canada)
17th Philadelphia International Film Festival (USA)
Festival du Film Francophone 2008 (Athènes - Thessalonique, Grèce) - PRIX DU JURY
Istanbul International Film Festival 2008 (Turquie)
1st Exposed Film Festival (Cologne, Allemagne)
54th Pula Film Festival (Croatie)
Synopsis
The story is set in the 18th century - somewhere in the Ukraine.
Jakub is a young man who was recently expelled from his band of Cossacks for having his horse stolen. Elias and Roman are two brothers who survive in the woods & stealing horses.
Horse Thieves is an adventure film but also the story of Jakub's quest, the young and shamed Cossack who will spare nothing and no one to regain his honor and dignity. The story confronts the two pairs of brothers, each of them trapped in an intense and infernal love-hate relationship.
Jakub, his young brother Vladimir and the horse thieves (Roman and Elias) live in the woods, self relying, away from society. Without restraints and boundaries, the young men let themselves slip into their most profound nature, wild and violent and at the same time magnificent. All of them have an intuitive understanding, a nearly organic connection with horses, forest, water. They actually are the "product" of the surrounding nature.
This film is about four young men, lost between the end of adolescence and the beginning of adulthood, lost in themselves and profoundly alone.
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Photos
Photo credit : Luca Etter
A film by
Micha Wald
Written by
Micha Wald
Principal cast
| Adrien Jolivet | |
| Grégoire Colin | |
| Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet | |
| François-René Dupont |