Hans Petter Moland’s Growth Of The Soil has sold to major international territories including Greenwich Entertainment for North America and Conic for the UK and Ireland.
Further sales for the Norwegian Oscar entry include Germany and Austria (Neue Visionen), Italy (Teodora Film), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Benelux (Cherry Pickers), Switzerland (Frenetic Films), Greece (Weird Wave), Baltics (Scanorama), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Bulgaria (Beta Film), India (Big Tree Entertainment), Indonesia (Falcon Pictures), Brazil (Imovision) and Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films).
The film opened in first place at the Norwegian box office earlier this month, released in Scandinavia by Scanbox Entertainment.
Growth Of The Soil is based on Knut Hamsun’s Nobel Prize-winning 1917 novel about a man who crosses mountains in search of somewhere to build a life, and finds a woman whose resilience matches his own. Herbert Nordrum and Asta Kamma August lead the cast, alongside Gard B. Eidsvold, Anders Baasmo, Oddgeir Thune, and Sjur Vatne Brean.
The film is written by Moland and Eidsvold, and produced by Hakon Overas for Norway’s 4 ½ Fiction, in co-production with Scanbox. It debuted as a Special Presentation at Toronto in September, before a European premiere at San Sebastian, where it won the Silver Shell for best leading performance and Jury Prize for best cinematography. It is Norway’s entry to the best international feature award at the 2027 Oscars; Beta Cinema handles sales.
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