PATHFINDER

Nils Gaup's The Pathfinder, or Ofelaš as it is in the language of the Sami people of Norway, was nominated for best foreign film at the 1987 Oscars, and was the first Norwegian feature film to do so since Nine Lives in 1957. In the film, we meet 16-year-old Aigin, who lives in the 11th century in what is now called Finnmark in far northern Norway. Witnessing his family being massacred by the nomadic Russian tribe, the Chudes, Aigin sets out for revenge, but is captured and used as a guide for the Chudes on the dangerous roads.