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Northern Sami

Northern or North Sami is the most widely spoken of all Sami languages. The speaking area of Northern Sami covers the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland...

: Guovdageainnu Stuimmit)http://www.samifilmfestival.no/media/dokument/andreversjon_programhefte%5B1%5D.pdf) is a 2008

2008 in film

This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

 film based on the true story of the Kautokeino riots

Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu

The Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu, also known as the Kautokeino uprising, was a revolt in the town of Kautokeino in northern Norway in 1852 by a group of Sami who attacked representatives of the Norwegian authorities. The rebels killed the local merchant and the local government official, whipped...

 in Kautokeino

Kautokeino

or Guovdageaidnu , is a municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 in 1852 in response to the Norwegian exploitation of the Sami community at that time. It is directed by Nils Gaup

Nils Gaup

-Career:Gaup was born in Kautokeino, Finnmark County in Northern Norway. He first intended to become an athlete but from 1974 to 1978 he went to drama school and studied at the Beaivváš Sámi Theatre in Kautokeino...

 and was released in January, 2008. Music to this movie was mostly composed by Sami musician - Mari Boine

Mari Boine

Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people...

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Cast

• Mikael Persbrandt
  Mikael Persbrandt
  Mikael Åke Persbrandt is a Swedish actor. In Swedish films he usually has lead roles and “tough guy” parts. He is perhaps most famous for his recurring role as the no-nonsense police officer Gunvald Larsson in the latest installment of the Martin Beck movies...
  
   as Carl Johan Ruth
• Michael Nyqvist
  Michael Nyqvist
  Rolf Åke Michael Nyqvist is a Swedish actor. Educated at the School of Drama in Malmö, he became well known from his role as police officer Banck in the first series of Beck movies made in 1997. He is recently most recognized for his role in the internationally acclaimed Millennium series as...
  
   as Lars Levi Læstadius
  Lars Levi Læstadius
  Lars Levi Læstadius was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of partly Sami ancestry. From the mid 1840s and onward he became the leader of the Laestadian movement...
  
  
• Nils Peder Isaksen Gaup as Mons Somby
  Mons Somby
  Mons Aslaksen Somby Somby was one of the leaders of the Sami rioters that attacked several Norwegian shops during the Kautokeino rebellion of 1852. During the uprising a merchant and the town sheriff were killed and others were whipped...
  
  
• Mikkel Gaup as Aslak Hætta
  Aslak Hætta
  Aslak Jacobsen Hætta was one of the leaders of the Sami revolt in Guovdageaidnu in November 1852. During the riots, the merchant Carl Johan Ruth and the local government official Lars Johan Bucht were killed and the pastor Fredrik Waldemar Hvoslef was whipped...
  
  
• Anni-Kristiina Juuso
  Anni-Kristiina Juuso
  Anni-Kristiina Juuso is a Sámi actress, who played the leading female role in the movies The Cuckoo and The Kautokeino Rebellion. She was awarded Russia's Best Actress award by both the movie academy and the press. Juuso has also received a State Movie Award, which was handed to her by Vladimir...
  
   as Ellen Aslaksdatter Skum
• Jørgen Langhelle
  Jørgen Langhelle
  Jørgen Langhelle is an Award-winning leading Norwegian actor of stage, screen and television.Langhelle has starred in the two successful Norwegian mini-series Deadline Torp and Torpedo , as well as starring in such movies as Kristin Lavransdatter , Elling , I Am Dina , Tyven, tyven , Ulvesommer ...
  
  
• Bjørn Sundquist
  Bjørn Sundquist
  Bjørn Richard Sundquist is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles.For many years he worked at Det Norske Teatret and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and Hamlet....
  
   as Pastor Stockfleth
• Stig Henrik Hoff
  Stig Henrik Hoff
  Stig Henrik Hoff is a Norwegian actor.He was born in Vadsø, but grew up in Berlevåg. His father is singer Trygve Hoff.-Filmography:*The Thing *Ulvenatten *Kautokeino-opprøret *Mirakel...
  
  
• Peter Andersson
  Peter Andersson (actor)
  -Selected filmography:- External links :...
  
   as Lars Johan Bucht
• Silje Holtet
  Silje Holtet
  Silje Holtet is a Norwegian actress and screenwriter.She was a drama student at Romerike Folkehøgskole, and has also studied Sanford Meisner technique at The Acting Corps in Los Angeles....
  
   as Anne Elise Blix
• Eirik Junge Eliassen as Prästen Zetliz
• Aslat Mahtte Gaup as Mathis Hætta
• Inger Utsi as Inger Andersdatter Spein
• Ole Nicklas Guttorm as Litle Aslak (son)
• Inga Juuso as Grandmother
• Beaska Niilas as Rasmus Spein
• Jovsset Heandrat as Lars Hætta
• Nikolaj Coster Waldau
  Nikolaj Coster Waldau
  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is a Danish actor. He received his education at Statens Teaterskole in Copenhagen in 1993, and his breakthrough in Danish film came with the 1994 hit Nattevagten . He played Detective John Amsterdam on the Fox television series New Amsterdam...
  
   as Bishop Juell

Soundtrack

A four track soundtrack CD with music by Mari Boine

Mari Boine

Mari Boine, previously known as Mari Boine Persen, is a Norwegian Sami musician known for having added jazz and rock to the yoiks of her native people...

, Svein Schultz and Herman Rundberg was released by Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia.

Track list

1. Elen Skum
2. Válddi vuoigna - The Spirit of Power
3. Deaivideapmi - Confrontation
4. Doaivut ja vuoimmehuvvat - Hope and Defeat