I write mostly to counter the description of the film as based on a "1,000-year-old Norwegian legend." I believe that I am correct saying that the only thing Norwegian about the film is the modern production of it by a multi- cultural group which included Norwegians, and most of which was done in Norway. The story is _not_ Norwegian, it is Saami, also spelt Sami. I feel that Nils Gaup has a talent for re-telling a story on film similar to that of Akira Kurasawa. Pathfinder/Ofelas is one of the best films I've ever seen in spite of the fact that I cannot speak Saami, don't know what language the Tchudes were speaking, and had to read the subtitles.