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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Nils Gaup |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fox Lorber |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Other |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 720917010182 |
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Customer Reviews of Pathfinder
Haunting, ethnic action with a blistering soundtrack This is the first ever feature film in the Lapp language. It tells the 1000 year old story of the young boy Aigin who sacrificed himself in leading the enemies of his people into dangerous cliffs instead of straight to their village. The freezing temperature and the fast-paced, hot action creates a tension which peaks with an extraordinary, digital soundtrack. The lapps are attacked by a band of tchudes, an ancient band of thieves and murderers coming from what may be Russia, and their impressivelive bleak costumes is a resemblance to Ninja warriors of todays Hong Kong action. Director Niels Gaup have succeeded in making a cultural effort combined with intriguing action.
a beautiful and moving film
This film, based on an ancient Sami legend, is a coming-of-age story about a boy who witnesses his family's murder by a brutal gang of thieves. How he deals with these murderers, while protecting the rest of his tribe, makes up the principal plot. The movie is simple--simple plot, simple dialogue, simple (but stunning) visuals, and this simplicity lends a great deal of strength to this work. Everything unnecessary has been cut away, much like the lives of the Sami people, a tribal group closely tied to an unforgiving landscape and climate (Lappland).
Although most of the film is action, there is a wonderful relationship that develops between the boy and the tribe's shaman, or "pathfinder." They have only a couple of conversations before fate separates them, but in those brief exchanges the pathfinder imparts all the knowledge the boy needs to take up the mantle of pathfinder himself.
This film is beautifully crafted, well-paced, and provides a wonderful portrait of a culture which has much to teach.
Great!
I really love this movie, I've seen it over and over again and still I'm not tired of it. The movie combines drama, action, beautiful sceneries of my home country and very good actors. Being a Sámi myself, this movie means extra to me, and I've always recommended it to friends and others since I think it provides a good, just insight in our otherwise forgotten history. I also appreciated that the movie language is north-Sámi, the beautiful language of my people