Tsamo
dir. Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio
Finland. 2015. 92 min.
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In 1860, when Alaska and Finland both belonged to the Russian Empire, a Finnish mining engineer named Simon buys the ten-year-old Tsamo, a Native American girl from Alaska, and brings her to live in Finland. Having baptised the girl in church, Simon starts teaching her the European way of life, but she is under the impression that she has married Simon and acts accordingly. When he then marries a woman of his own age and status, Tsamo is left thoroughly perplexed.