THE PAINTER AND THE THIEF

KUNSTNEREN OG TYVEN

By Benjamin REE

NORWEGIAN FILM INSTITUTE - as FIN / PROMO

Documentary - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2020
International Documentry Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • NORWAY
    • Languages
    • NORWEGIAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Benjamin REE
    • Producer(s)
    • Ingvil GISKE (Medieoperatørene)
    • Synopsis
    • Filmed over three years, this film follows the unlikely friendship between the artist Barbora ’Barbar’ Kysilkova and the thief and drug addict who stole two of her paintings. A surprising story that takes turns and twists one could not have guessed, as the artist, while searching for her stolen paintings, slowly turns the art thief into art.