The Tundra Settlers

The Tundra Settlers

0 52 minutes 2004
A documentary about two adventurers, who seek to the Tundra of Samiland in the mid-fifties, Frank Juhls from Denmark and Regine from Germany. In the nomadic Sami culture they find peace as artists, far away from the hectic cities they both left. The Sami people embrace them with warmth and traditions. In return they become silver smiths and repair the old jewelry of the Sami: A silver heritage that in the end becomes the well renowned Juhls Silver Gallery, people from all over the world come to visit. But the Sami people once so warm, turn against them in jealousy and hatred. The film is about borders of acceptance. When do strangers become one of us? This is a documentary made by the Sami woman, Anne Lajla Utsi. It comments on her own indigenous society. She looks with other eyes at how cultural awakening affected the forreign settlers Frank and Regine Juhls, through the Sami cultural revolution that raged through Norway in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The movie also shows off the beautiful and wild nature of the arctic tundra, that shapes the art of the settlers and the people of this fascinating place.
Type: Sami
Category: Documentary
Genre: Documentary
Director: Anne Lajla Utsi
Producer: Nils Thomas Utsi
Script: Anne Lajla Utsi
Country: Norway
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