The Wedding of Palo

The Wedding of Palo is a 1934 Greenlandic-Danish film set in Greenland. The screen play was written by Greenlandic-Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen and directed by German Friedrich Dalsheim. Rasmussen died during production of the film in 1933 and the film was released in 1934 under the Danish title Palos brudefærd. The film portrays the Inuit culture of Greenland and the plot is centered on the selection of a marriage partner for the heroine Navarana and her two suitors, Palo and Samo. [1] [2]

References

  1. ^ "Palos Brudefærd" (in Danish). Det Danske Filminstitut. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
  2. ^ MacKenzie, Scott; Anna, Westerståhl Stenport (2015), "'From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen's Ethnographical Feature Film The Wedding of Palo' by Ebbe Volquardsen", Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 217–223, ISBN 9780748694174
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