Norway’s Oscar submission “Growth of the Soil,” directed by Hans Petter Moland, is getting its first trailer as anticipation grows ahead of major festival premieres. The film is based on Knut Hamsun’s Nobel Prize–winning novel and is positioned as an “epic love story” set in Norway’s mountain landscape, exploring a couple’s struggle to build a home amid harsh conditions.
Sources say the film debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival and San Sebastián, following earlier attention in Norway where it is selected as the country’s submission for the Academy Awards. Variety reports that Moland speaks about the story as something that resonates broadly, while other coverage focuses more on the film’s trailer messaging and the narrative framing. FirstShowing highlights themes such as two people versus nature and “history’s wider forces,” along with the cast listed for the project.
Together, the outlets present a consistent picture: a Hamsun adaptation from Moland, starring Herbert Nordrum and others, shaped as a large-scale drama of love, survival, and changing circumstances as it reaches international festival audiences.
