Movie: Gállok

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    Gállok – kampen i Sameland

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    A troubled nature photographer risk his family and himself in the fight against a mining project in the Nordic wilderness, when he faces strong political and economical forces, local rivals and a Sámi collective that hesitate to accept him as one of them.

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    2018-08-16

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