A retrospective, coming of age documentary about a group of train robbing kids from Norway in the 90s. In the mid 90s a group of young friends aged 11-15 stole an enormous amount of beer and soda from freight trains in Trondheim, Norway. Train Robbers is a nostalgic, funny, serious, warm, sad and poetic coming of age documentary about kids that didn’t fit in at school or the football team. This could have been a film about adult men with drug addiction, prison sentences and split families. But it is not. This is a story about the children that had the future ahead of themselves, but society let down.
Original title:
Togrøvere
Director:
Martin A. Walther
Script:
Martin A. Walther
Cinematography:
Nils Eilif Bremdal
Music:
André Bratten
Others:
Editor: Fredrik S. Hana
Production:
Spætt Film AS // Håvard Wettland Gossé, Jon Vatne
Cast:
Erlend Hansbakken, Isak Melling Lesund, Iver Svenning Brevik, Mathias Holst Iversen, Olliver Våge, Stian Hovland Pedersen
Dialogue:
Norwegian
Subtitles:
German
Clearance of minors:
12 years
Licensed territory:
Worldwide except Norway