Freedom Calf

In a small village in north of Sweden lives a calf that dislikes enclosures. The desperate farmer builds fence after fence, but the calf still manages to get out. When a film team arrives to make a film about the events, everything changes.

2005

0h 10min

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Anders Tyrland

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