#tsamo

[kuutamosonaatti]

Tsamo (2015) | dir. Anastasia Lapsui & Markku Lehmuskallio

[yokyopeli]

Anastasia Lapsui & Markus Lehmuskallio

[yokyopeli]

Tsamo/Aina (Albina Tologovona) Tsamo (2015) [Markku Lehmuskallio & Anastasia  Lapsuy]

Tsamo was a raven Tlinglit indigenous girl from Alaska whose freedom was bought by a Fennoswede Simon who, once Russia sold Alaska to USA in 1860s, took her with him to Finland, where she was taught first Swedish then a little Finnish and she was renamed Aina (Finnish for always) when she was baptized as Evangelical Lutheran. She was sent to school and from house to house, where people always tried to get her to lose her identity. (Based on a true story) 

[yokyopeli]

Solveig Moore (Ánne-Risten Juuso) Tsamo (2015)

[yokyopeli]

Tsamo (2015)

[girlsrepresent]

In the 1860s, Alaska and Finland are simultaneously parts of the Russian Empire. A Finnish mining engineer, Simon, buys a ten-year old Alaskan Native American girl and decides to bring her to Finland. The girl, Tsamo (Albina Tologovona), is baptized and Simon starts to teach her European manners. The girl thinks she’s married to Simon and acts accordingly. Simon marries a lady of his own age and class and Tsamo gets confused. Simon is forced to send the girl away and the battle over Tsamo’s identity takes complicated turns.

[kenoonmars]

We don't sleep when the sun goes down We don't waste no precious time All my friends in the loop Making up for teenage crime

[wiskut]