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Give us our skeletons!(Movie, 1999)

Original title: "Oaivveskaldjut" (English/EN)
51min | Genre: Documentary
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Give Us Our Skeletons! (Antakaa Meille Luurankomme in Finnish, Oaivveskaldjut in North Sami) is a 1999 documentary film directed by Paul-Anders Simma about Niillas Somby, a Sami man who retraces his family ancestry as he searches for the head of his ancestor, Mons Somby. Mons Aslaksen Somby and Aslak Jakobsen Hætta were executed by decapitation on 14 October 1854 for murder, following the 1852 Kautokeino rebellion against the local Norwegian government in which two people were murdered. Their heads were claimed by the government for scientific research, and were held as part of a collection of 900 skulls at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Oslo. The movie describes three parallel plots; the first is Niillas Somby's story on how he became one of the most celebrated protesters during the Alta Dam Protests between 1979 and 1981 near Kautokeino, Norway. In the years that followed, he traveled in exile to Canada where he was given sanctuary by the Iroquois First Nation, and later returned to Norway. The second plot was the disturbing examination of the scientific racism and racial classification movement that was considered an accepted fact by Scandinavian scientists from the early 19th century until the 1950s. This included the plundering of Sami gra... ()

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About Give us our skeletons!

A man sets out to retrieve the skeletons of his ancestors, stolen in the 1930s for eugenic experiments.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
Original language: English (EN)
Translated into 1 language: English (EN)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/05/1999
Cast: Ánde Somby, Niillas Aslaksen Somby, Per Holck, Gunnar Broberg
Director: Paul-Anders Simma
Producer: Paul-Anders Simma, Nils-Thomas Utsi, Liisa Holmberg
Screenwriter: Paul-Anders Simma
Film Editor: Tuula Mehtonen
Director of Photography: Pauli Sipiläinen
Composer: Esa Kotilainen
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Antakaa meille luurankomme!"
"Gi oss skjelettene våre!"
"Ge oss våra skelett!"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:201128, Added: 04/25/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024