Mikkel Gaup
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Mikkel Gaup.
Born: January 16, 1968
Place of Birth: Alta, Norway
Known For
Cloudboy
Cityboy Niilas (12) is sent to his mother in Lapland. The only one succeeding in making contact with him is his new sister Suna (11). She takes him on a journey in the magical woods where shy Niilas turns into a wild cloudboy.
Valens Frokost-TV
Kristian Valen gives us breakfast-TV for B-humans in the best airtime. Valen plays the always tired and unprepared showhost Nils Georg, that takes you through half an hour of energic parodies of celebrities and TV-shows. This is a show with music, news, sport and last but not least TV-kitchen with a new celebrity-chef every week.
Breaking the Waves
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.
Let the River Flow
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with the derogatory jokes. When her cousin Mikkhal takes her to a camp by the Alta River, where people are demonstrating against the building of a dam, Ester learns how the fight for the river is also a revolt against the years of brutal racism and discrimination against her people. After a major confrontation with the police, Mikkhal and some other Sámi decide to go to Oslo to hunger strike in front of the Parliament. Knowing what is at stake, Ester realises it is time to make a stand…
Pathfinder
Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the family's teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Sámi whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his family's murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Sámi. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp.
Ellos Sápmi
A charismatic womanizer is deprived of his leadership and betrayed by his own people.
En helt vanlig dag på jobben
A young man dreams of becoming a journalist, in order to write stories which may change the world. This does not turn out as planned, and instead he ends up as a reporter for the celebrity magazine Se og Hør. We are observing a man who gradually loses all inhibitions in order to reach the top in the country's largest weekly magazine.
Gavagai
German businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet's home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten's wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend's pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.
Burning 2
After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.
Jul på Månetoppen
Christmas on the Moontop is a Norwegian christmas series. It was produced and sent on NRK in 2002 with replays in 2005, 2010 and 2014. Idea and screenplay by Gudny Ingebjørg Hagen. Christmas on the Moontop was the successor to Christmas in Blåfjell and Amalies Christmas. Directed by Torunn Calmeyer Ringen.
Filmography
as Teacher
as Ailu's Father
as Reiadnu
as Niko Haapasalo
as Mikkel
as Kemet
as Performer
as Mikkel Gaup
as Self
as Smugler
as Aslak Hætta
as Aslak Hætta
as Sig selv
as Samemafiaen (voice)
as Malcolm
as Tvilling
as Herpert
as Alf A. Romeo
as Tvilling
as Ante
as Pits
as Niillas
as Niillas
as Jonner
as Aigin