Film
What Measures to Save a People?
The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.
Overview
The physician and professor Herman Lundborg headed the world’s first state racial biology institute in Uppsala, Sweden, from 1922 to ’35. He was obsessed by the threat of racial mixing between Sámi, Finns and Swedes in the north. On his travels, he is drawn to a woman of Finnish-Sámi descent, and has a child with her.
Cast
- Jeanette BackmanSelf
- Gunnar BrobergSelf - Historiker
- Karl-Henrik GustavsonSelf
- Dora IsakssonSelf
- Stefan MikaelssonSelf
- Curt PerssonSelf - Historiker
- Katarina Pirak SikkuSelf - Konstnärinna från Jokkmokk
- Margareta Huuva StenbergSelf
