Immediately, Aigin’s predicament becomes complex. Aigin himself barely escapes with his life. By the time the family’s 16-year-old son Aigin (capable, likable Mikkel Gaup, not directly related to Nils) returns from a hunting trip, the Tchudes have slaughtered his parents, his younger sister and even their pet dog. Looking like a band of Ninja warriors, a group of a dozen or so masked, black-clad Tchudes, scavengers from what is today northern Russia and Finland, swoop down on a Lapp family. Debuting writer-director Nils Gaup wastes no time in shattering this peaceful image of vast, stark natural beauty. (Lapland was composed of parts of Sweden and Finland as well as Norway). The brisk, distinctive “Pathfinder” (the Fine Arts), a 1988 best foreign film Oscar nominee, opens with a panorama of a snowy earthly paradise, a small community of sturdy Lapps, clad in reindeer skins and living in a small settlement high above the Arctic Circle in what is now northernmost Norway.
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