Most of the scenes were shot in Finnmarksvidda, in temperatures as low as –47☌. He becomes the new Pathfinder (shaman-leader) of the Sami group by virtue of his wisdom and bravery. The few surviving Chudes give up the pursuit and Aigin has effectively saved his people. Aigin unties himself and flees, leading the Chudes over a cliff where several of them fall to their deaths after the remaining Chudes cut the ropes to save themselves. Leading the Chudes across mountainous terrain, Aigin lures the Chudes into a steep area where they are all forced to tie themselves together with ropes for security. He cannot overpower the Chudes, but he can trick them. To prevent the torture Aigin reveals himself and offers to act as a Pathfinder for the Chudes to the coastal settlement where a large number of Samis live.īut Aigin has a plan in mind. The hunters, except Aigin, who hides, are quickly killed by the numerically superior Chudes, but one of the men, the old shaman-leader is kept alive and tortured. Aigin and some of the other hunters remain to meet the Chudes, while the remainder of the group flee.
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He gets into a debate with them about how to face the Chude attackers: some argue for meeting them in battle, while others maintain they should all run away toward the coast. Upon reaching the others, Aigin's wound is treated by the shaman of the group. He is wounded but makes his way to a community of other Samis who live some distance away. He flees to a place where he can find friends and relatives, and is chased by the Chudes. In Finnmark around AD 1000, a young Sami named Aigin comes home from hunting to find his family massacred by the Chudes. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää played one of the parts as well as writing the music to the film, together with Kjetil Bjerkestrand and Marius Müller. It was the first full-length film in Sami, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988.
The film inspired a 2007 remake, though it is an action adventure set in North America that bears little resemblance to the original. Pathfinder (original title in Sami: Ofelaš and in Norwegian: Veiviseren) is a 1987 Norwegian film, written and directed by Nils Gaup.
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