The girl from the north

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Movie
German title The girl from the north
Original title Sameblod
Country of production Sweden , Norway , Denmark
original language South Sami , Swedish
Publishing year 2016
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Amanda Kernell
script Amanda Kernell
production Lars G. Lindström
music Kristian Eidnes Andersen
camera Sophia Olsson
Petrus Sjövik
cut Not so Skov
occupation

The girl from the north (original title: Sameblod , Eng. "Samiblut") is a Swedish feature film from 2016. The film was directed by Amanda Kernell . It deals with racism experiences of a Sami in northern Sweden in the 1930s and their effects on the later life of the main character.

action

The 78-year-old Christina is coming to the north of Sweden with her son and granddaughter to attend the funeral of her sister Njenna. She is addressed in Sami at the funeral, but answers in Swedish. While her son and granddaughter get on well with the funeral guests and go to the reindeer pastures with them, Christina retires to a hotel and socializes with Swedish vacationers. They talk badly about the Sami.

A flashback tells of Christina's youth in the 1930s. Her Sami name is Elle Marja. She is 14 years old and goes to a boarding school with her sister and other Sami children far away from her reindeer-breeding family. Children are forbidden to speak Sami in school and they should be introduced to Swedish culture. Elle Marja is supposed to take over the reindeer herd one day. She is the best in her class and she is a loner among the children, also because she is keen to speak as much Swedish as possible. Racial biologists from the State Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala come in Elle Marja's school to perform humiliating tests on the children. Elle Marja decides to become Swedish and move to Uppsala to go to higher school. She sneaks to a party and meets a boy from Uppsala. She burns her traditional Sami costume and secretly takes the train to Uppsala. She stays one night with the family of the boy she met at the festival. However, she asks his family to leave the next morning, whereupon she sleeps in a park in Uppsala. Elle Marja poses as Christina from Småland in Uppsala .

When she cannot raise enough money to attend school in Uppsala, she drives back to her family in the north. She brings her family a dessert from Uppsala and asks her mother for her late father's silver belt so that she can go to school. When she refuses, Elle Marja kills a reindeer. The mother gives her the silver and Elle Marja goes away.

Back in the present, Christina or Elle Marja climbs a mountain to get to the reindeer pastures where her son and granddaughter are.

Emergence

Sameblod is Amanda Kernell's feature film debut. The scenes with Elle Marja as an old woman returning to her homeland were initially implemented as a short film ( Stoerrie Vaerie , 2015) in order to finally convince producers to make a feature film.

The shooting took place in Tärnaby and Hemavan in Västerbotten as well as in Uppsala and Stockholm .

The script is based in part on Kernell's own family; Kernell's father is of Sami descent. For the film, Kernell conducted interviews with relatives and contemporary witnesses. Although they are Sami themselves, some older family members talk badly of the Sami, Kernell said.

publication

The film premiered at the Venice International Film Festival on September 8, 2016 . The film was shown at the 2017 Berlinale in the NATIVe - Indigenous Cinema series.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kai Müller: The thing with motorcycle noise. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 16, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Homecoming of "Sami Blood". February 4, 2017, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Directors Amanda Kernell om Sameblod: Okunskapen kring Sveriges koloniala historia är enormous. In: Dagens Nyheter . September 5, 2016, accessed March 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Sameblod. In: Berlinale. Retrieved March 31, 2017 .