An Olympian vanished into the woods for 50 years. This is what silence looks like.
Documentary about Lars Theodor Jonsson who was a cross country skier in the 1920s and 30s and now lives alone in the forest.
Cinematography
Snow-drenched landscapes that breathe instead of speak
Direction
Sladkowski lets emptiness tell the whole story
Director
Jerzy Sladkowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lars was Sámi, Sweden's indigenous people, though the film barely mentions it—reflecting how assimilation policies erased his own heritage.
Director Sladkowski found Lars by accident while location-scouting another film; the original project was abandoned to capture this instead.
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