page_title: Pathfinder (1987 film)
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Pathfinder (1987 film) / Reception
caption_attribution_description: Mikkel Gaup (in traditional Laplanders Gákti costume) and Nils Gaup (right) on the red carpet at the 60th Annual Academy Awards, 4/11/88 - nominated for best foreign film Pathfinder. Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can
context_page_description: Pathfinder is a 1987 Norwegian action-adventure film written and directed by Nils Gaup. The film is based on an old Sami legend.
  It was the first full-length film in Sami, and it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988. The leading role was played by Mikkel Gaup as Aigin. Nils-Aslak Valkeapää played one of the parts as well as writing the music to the film, together with Kjetil Bjerkestrand and Marius Müller.
context_section_description: Initial critical reception for the film was lukewarm, but it was popular in the box office in Norway, where 700,000 attended screenings of the film. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1988 Oscars, but lost to Babette's Feast. It won the Amanda Best Film award in 1988. The film is now often considered one of the best films of Norwegian cinema.
  The film is seen as part of the Sami revitalisation movement that celebrates the survival of the Sami language, culture and tradition that resisted their assimilation into the wider Norwegian culture.
caption: Mikkel Gaup and Nils Gaup at the Oscar where the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
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