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| Mikkel Gaup | ... | Aigin | |
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Ingvald Guttorm | ... | Aigin's Father |
| Nils Utsi | ... | Raste | |
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Henrik H. Buljo | ... | Dorakas |
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Nils-Aslak Valkeapää | ... | Siida-Isit |
| Helgi Skúlason | ... | Tsjuderen med arret | |
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Inger Utsi | ... | Aigin's Sister |
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Svein Scharffenberg | ... | Tsjuderen, høvding |
| Knut Walle | ... | Tchude Interpreter | |
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John Sigurd Kristensen | ... | Tchude Strongman |
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Sara Marit Gaup | ... | Sahve |
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Anna Maria Blind | ... | Varia (as Anne-Marja Blind) |
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Ellen Anne Buljo | ... | Aigin's Mother |
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Svein Birger Olsen | ... | Diemis |
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Sverre Porsanger | ... | Sierge |
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Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjudes," roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the families teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Lapps whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his families murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Lapps. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp. Written by Gerhard Windecker <g.wind@mbox300.swipnet.se>
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Country:
NorwayLanguage:
SaamiRelease Date:
7 April 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$3,950, 13 May 1990Gross USA:
$10,628Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Aigin: Wish I could.
Raste: Why can't you? Scared of the dark?
[Aigin nods positively]
Raste: At daybreak, head for the cost. There are other villages there.
Aigin: Not for me. I have no village.
Raste: Your mind is clouded with thoughts of revenge. You must remember we are all but parts of the whole. We are children in a greater family. The Tchudes have forgotten this. Don't you forget it.
Aigin: My family is dead. I'm all alone.
Raste: You may feel that way, but you are bound up in the greater family. You are not free, ...
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Raste: Were you sleeping?Aigin: Wish I could.
Raste: Why can't you? Scared of the dark?
[Aigin nods positively]
Raste: At daybreak, head for the cost. There are other villages there.
Aigin: Not for me. I have no village.
Raste: Your mind is clouded with thoughts of revenge. You must remember we are all but parts of the whole. We are children in a greater family. The Tchudes have forgotten this. Don't you forget it.
Aigin: My family is dead. I'm all alone.
Raste: You may feel that way, but you are bound up in the greater family. You are not free, ...
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Anyone in the business of storytelling should begin with a good story, which is precisely what Norwegian director Nils Gaup did for his Oscar nominated debut feature, adapting a thousand year old Scandinavian legend about a young boy who rescues a small community of fellow Laplanders from a horde of ruthless invaders. The setting may be exotic (the film was shot almost entirely above the Arctic Circle) but the basic mythic outline can be (and likely has been) translated anywhere, from the American West to " a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away". Certain elements are by now so familiar they might almost be clichés: the young hero, orphaned by an evil enemy (the Tchudes, dressed all in black and speaking a harsh, guttural language); his refuge with a likewise threatened nearby tribe, who see him as their savior; the medicine man who will guide him to wisdom; and so forth. Gaup knows enough not to embellish an already proved formula, and as a result his film offers brisk, uncomplicated entertainment, with action scenes as thrilling as anything coming out of Hollywood these days. But now that the legend is on film, will future generations of Lapp children learn it from their elders by simply renting a DVD?