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SUMÉ - MUMISITSINERUP NIPAA

SUMÉ - THE SOUND OF A REVOLUTION

Inuk Silis Høegh

Greenland, Denmark, Norway, 2014, 73 Min

In the nineteen-seventies a handful of young Greenlanders formed the rock group Sumé, which was soon afterwards to storm the local charts with songs written in the island's native tongue. After centuries of marginalisation of the island's native culture, the band became the avant-garde of a movement for national independence.

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Sumé's poetic lyrics spoke not only of the disappearance of Greenland villages, but also of the imminent extinction of an entire culture. Crashing beats and a charismatic lead-man managed to get the message across, laying the groundwork for a national consciousness. Making use of archive material and interviews with contemporary witnesses, artist Inuk Silis Høegh tells a no-frills tale full of spirit and encouragement that furthermore reminds us that the disappearance of a language means much more than the loss of mere words. GL

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour

Drehbuch
Inuk Silis Høegh

Kamera
Henrik Bohn Ipsen

Ton
Jon McBirnie

Schnitt
Per K. Kirkegaard

Musik
Per Berthelsen, Malik Høegh

Darsteller
Erno Aronsen, Per Berthelsen, Hjalmar Dahl, Per Danker, Hans Fleischer, Lise Hegelund, Malik Høegh, Isak Kleist, Kuupik Kleist, Emil Larsen, Arkaluk Lynge, Aviâja E. Lynge, Sakiu Nielsen, Eigil Petersen, Tida Ravn, Karsten Sommer

Produzent
Emile Hertling Péronard

Produktion
Anorak Film

Co-Produktion
Bullitt Film and Jabfilm

Kontakt
DR Sales
Kim Christiansen
Emil Holms Kanal 20
0999 Copenhagen
Denmark
Tel.: +45.35.20.22 99
kimc@dr.dk
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Inuk Silis Høegh - born 1972 in Qaqortoq, Greenland. He studied film & TV production in Bristol, Great Britain, and graduated from the Royal Danish School of Visual Arts in 2010. Since the 1990s he has produced and directed numerous short films, music videos, documentaries and commercials along with art exhibitions and installations.

Movies

SINILLUARIT (1999, short)
PÅ FREMMED IS (2000, short, doc)
ESKIMO WEEKEND (2001, short)
I SAMME BÅD (2002, short, doc)
TARRARSORNERIT (2005, short, doc)

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