Svidd neger

The title of the film could be translated into 'Scorched (Burned) Negro (or Nigger)' and there is a black boy in the film and later on also a fire but the title is perhaps more related to the 'fires' in his life. 

We also meet Anna (Kersti Lid Gullvåg) who lives with her totally unbearable father Karl (Thor-Inge Gullvåg) who has killed his wife when he found that their newborn child was black, indicating he couldn't be the father. Less likely it is anyway!

The goast of his wife now haunts him and he has started drinking heavily neglecting his daughter, only using her as his 'farm maiden', having her doing all the work, supplying him with alcohol. 

One day Anna - who wants to find a man - discovers another family on the other side of the mountain. This family consists of a rather alcoholized widow Ellen Margrethe (Guri Johnson), her intolerable son Peder (Erik Junge Eliassen) and Ellen's adopted son Ante (Kingsford Siayor). The latter is said to have arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.

Is he perhaps the son of Karl, having survived?

Between these two families a sort of pact is arranged where Karl and Ellen becomes a couple - more or less (perhaps less) - and they want to marry the pretty Anna with the ugly Peder, just to knit the families together. 

On the same time Anna has met a sami by the name of Normann Hætta bongo Utsi Saus (Frank Jørstad) and his plans is to go to 'Ammrica'. 

This is in many ways a bizarre film but on the same time it doesn't succeed in becoming bizarre in a more sophisticated way, whereby the somewhat weird behaviour of each and everyone becomes parodical. 

I think the director has tried to copy ideas from other major directors having depicted socially dysfunctional families or/and dysfunctional milieus but in this case it falls between different genres, leaving the viewer wondering if it's a black comedy, a parody or a serious critic of society. I guess it's a bit of everything and this doesn't work out to well we thought.

It tries to turn the ethnical questions upside down by blending different styles and approaches to life among this group of people but it's not revolutionary in its execution.

For Ante it becomes a happy end in any way, revealing his roots and belongings.