Men of the Wild filming in Norway

TrustNordisk will handle sales on Thomas Daneskov’s comedy Men of the Wild,  produced by Lina Flint at Nordisk Film Spring, the outfit behind The Guilty.

Daneskov co-wrote the film with award-winning author Morten Pape.

The film started shooted in the mountains of Norway on October22 and will wrap on November 26. 

Rasmus Bjerg  and Zaki Youssef star in the comedy about a Danish man who runs away from his modern life to find himself in nature. But he finds himself on the run with an unlikely companion.  

The cast also includes Sofie Grabol, Jonas Bergen Rahmanzadeh and Bjørn Sundquist.

Bergen-based Handmade Films is co-producing the film which is backed by the Danish Film Institute, in collaboration with DR.

Nordisk plans to release the film in Denmark on March 11, 2021.

Daneskov previously directed The Elite, which won the New Talent Grand Prix at CPH PIX 2015, and the mockumentary series Joe Tech. Both were also produced by Flint. 

The creative team includes cinematographer Jonatan Mose, production designer Rasmus Thjellesen and editor Julius Krebs Damsbo.

Homepage image: Men of the Wild. Credit: TrustNordisk