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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

The Minister of State
(1997, 83 min.) SWEDEN/NORWAY/FINLAND
Director: Paul-Anders Simma (Sami)
Writer: Paul-Anders Simma (Sami)
Actors: Erik Kiviniemi, Björn Sundqvist, Sara Margrethe Oskal
In Swedish, Norwegian, Sami, Finnish, and German, English subtitles.

In a remote Sami village in Finland, during WW II, a young man claims he has been sent to advance agrarian reform—the mystery grows as a second stranger arrives in the village.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

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