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CANNES 2007 Belgium

Horse thieves selected in Critics’ Week

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Micha Wald’s Horse Thieves [+see also:
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is the first Belgian film to be selected for Cannes this year after what was a busy 2006. The feature will compete in the 46th Critics’ Week.

The film’s producer Jacques-Henri Bronckart will also present Wald’s upcoming film Simon Konianski at the festival, to the European Producers Club (see news).

The surprising, brilliant and lyrical Horse Thieves (see news) is set in a fictional early 19th century Ukraine and is an intimate account of two sets of brothers, tied to each other in strong and complex ways.

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While the first two brothers are training themselves, against the odds, to join the Cossacks, the second two lead a life of solitude in the forest stealing horses. Nothing seems to link the two sets of brothers at first, but unforeseen circumstances lead the four youths to meet.

Accompanied by the tense, sombre and silent performances of its two lead actors, Adrien Jolivet and Grégoire Colin, the film is a refined, three-act tragedy that ends in a final duel that leaves one speechless.

Co-starring François-René Dupont and Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Horse Thieves is a Versus, production with French outfit Rezo and Quebec’s Forum Films 2005 Inc., in co-production with RTBF and Téléfilm Canada.

Backing for the film came from Wallimage, the Belgian National Lottery, the Centre du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique, the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), the SODEC and tax shelter investment through Inver Invest, an intermediary agency set up by Versus Productions and Les Films du Fleuve.

International sales are being handled by Rezo.

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(Translated from French)

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