Birte from Aursfjord, a strong-willed young woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, falls in love with a Sámi, but is forced to marry a local man.
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The people behind it
Liv Heløe
Birte
Mikkel Gaup
Niillas
André Svendsen
Benjamin
Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Ailo Korach
Odd Strøm
Prost Mogens Ebeltoft
Kirsten Hofseth
Karen Andersdatter
Bjarne Thomsen
Mathias Knudsen
Ellen Nicolaysen
Løstig-Gjertrud
Kristine Skottedal
Kaisa Barro
Bernhard Ramstad
Ole Knudsen
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