Stolen

2024 [SWEDISH]

Action / Drama / Thriller

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 64% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 64%
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 2387 2.4K

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Plot summary

A young woman struggles to defend her Sámi heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation.

Director

Elle Márjá Eira Photo
Elle Márjá Eira

Top cast

Martin Wallström Photo
Martin Wallström as Robert
Ida Labba Persson Photo
Ida Labba Persson as Anna-Stina
Lars-Ante Wasara Photo
Lars-Ante Wasara as Mattias
Pavva Pittja Photo
Pavva Pittja as Lasse
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986.06 MB
1280*534
Swedish 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 4
1.98 GB
1920*802
Swedish 5.1
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 47 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by pazu7 7 / 10

Most interesting thing is the Sami culture.

As a thriller this film is barely adequate BUT I still enjoyed watching it, basically for the Sami culture. I had never even heard of them before and was surprised to find out there was a group of white indigenous reindeer herders with their own language who suffered bigotry from descendants of migrants. Seems to be a global theme, huh? I even did some reading about The Sami after the show. It's a very interesting story which I will be studying more. Back to the film itself: to be fair it is well filmed, the characters are well developed and the performances are good. And beautiful landscapes. It does get a bit repetitious with certain character conflicts and snowmobile chases. But it is a directorial debut and, like I said, I kinda liked it. 7 stars.
Reviewed by kruiwagen2000 5 / 10

Beautiful images, but slow and bad writing

*spoiler-free till half-way* I wanted to like this film. It has beautiful images from the area and herding of reindeer and costumes from the Sami people. Although it's obvious that most of the actors aren't professionals, I think it's important for the message of the movie that they are played by Sami people and overall they do a decent job.My issue is with the writing. The film touches on many interesting topics: unemployment among the villagers, the opening of a mine that will bring jobs, but will also interfere with the herding of the reindeer, the distrust between Sami people and the other villagers, alcoholism, depression and suicide among young people. Even the grandmother with beginning dementia and Elsa wondering if she should leave for university could have been interesting plot points. Enough topics to fill a multiple season show! All of these topics are touched upon briefly, but none of them is worked out properly, leaving me either wanting to know more or just not interested.*big spoilers from here* Then there's the plot of the movie. Villagers kill reindeer to try and chase away the Sami people, because they prefer mining over herding reindeer. A young girl sees one of the killers but is afraid to say anything and ten years later, as a young woman, she wants to finally catch him. It could've been an exciting thriller-like plot. Sadly, the action is too slow, most characters just lack urgency or logic. Most of the plot is Elsa telling her elders or the police what happened and they denying her story over and over again. Then in the end, she tells the story to the police again and now they believe her, because the guy's already dead and they find the dead reindeer in his shed. The story just left me very unsatisfied. I think with better writing and better directing, it could have been an exciting story in an original setting with a strong message, but now it's sadly a mediocre film.And finally: what about that mine? Did it ever open? Did the Sami fight back? It's never been spoken of again and the story ends with a sentimental message.
Reviewed by lesley_65 7 / 10

Life on the Edge

Stolen is set in an indigenous (Sami) community of reindeer herders in northern Sweden. After years of harassment from a local non indigenous group, and an inadequate response from police, a young Sami woman decides to take matters into her own hands.Although a simple tale that focuses mainly on racism and its dispiriting effect on the community, the movie also hints at broader problems, namely competition for land, disagreement about government subsidies to the Sami, and the likely impact of climate change on the region.Visually the movie is delightful with the colourful Sami costumes set off by beautiful snow covered landscapes. The vibrancy of the visuals provide a stark but welcome contrast to the sense of doom about the future of the Sami way of life.
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