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THE KAUTOKEINO REBELLION

KAUTOKEINOOPPRØRET

By Nils GAUP

Drama - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- NORWAY
- Languages
- NORWEGIAN
- Director(s)
- Nils GAUP
- Writer(s)
- Nils GAUP, Nils Isak EIRA, Tone Pelone WAHL
- Cast
- Anni-Kristiina JUUSO, Aslat Mathe GAUP, Bjørn SUNDQUIST, Michael NYQUIST, Mikael PERSBRANDT, Mikkel GAUP
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-E7E4-0000-3-0000-0000-S
- EIDR
- 10.5240/20A7-EAC1-3412-67B9-37C7-I
- Producer(s)
- Börje HANSSON (Rubicon Film AS), Jørgen Storm ROSENBERG (Rubicon Film AS)
- Synopsis
- For centuries the windswept mountain plateau of northern Scandinavia has been inhabited by the native sami population and their reindeers. But modernisation is about to enter the desolate village of Kautokeino where the authority is held by the prosperous and ruthless liquor dealer Ruth, staring Mikael Persbrandt. One of the native tribes, led by the young woman Elen, refuses to pay their unjust debt to Ruth. Without a trial, Ruth manages to imprison most of Elen’s tribe, leaving Elen alone to take care of the reindeers. Elen gets help to set up a trial in which the men are released, but Ruth claims ownership of the tribe’s reindeers to cover the cost of the trial. Loosing the basis of their lives, Elen and her tribe have little choice but to oppose to Ruth’s claim, leading to one of the most dramatic episodes in northern Scandinavian history.