This Nordic Western takes place in the untamed Lapland tundra. The protagonist is young miner Rupi, who hopes to scrape together enough money through excavating the tundra to forever shake the suffocating dust of the mining village from his feet. But the work has come to a halt because Rupi’s reindeer herder father refuses to sell his land. What’s more, the manipulative mine owner nicknamed the Fisherman has his eye on Rupi’s friend’s wife, a woman who Rupi is also secretly in love with. Now that life in the mining village is becoming more dangerous by the day, Rupi must ...
Director: Veiko Õunpuu
Production Firm(s) | Homeless Bob Production |
Film Category | Feature film, Full length feature |
Genre | Drama |
Text / Dialogue | Finnish |
Subtitles | Estonian, English |
Duration | 117:00 |
Producer | Katrin Kissa | Mark Lwoff | Misha Jaari | Ellen Havenith |
Director | Veiko Õunpuu |
Screenwriter | Heikki Huttu-Hiltunen | Eero Tammi | Veiko Õunpuu |
Cinematographer | Sten-Johan Lill |
Art Director | Otso Linnalaakso |
Costume Designer | Jaanus Vahtra |
Composer | Sven Grünberg |
Sound Designer | Mark Glynne |
Editor | Wouter van Luijn | Xander Nijsten |
Rupi
Riitta
Kari "The Fisherman" Kolehmainen
Lievonen
Chief Oula
Tatu
Foreman
Mollanen
Kinnunen