The film was shot in Kautokeino, Finnmarksvidda during the winter of 1987, where temperatures were as low as –47 °C. This presented unique difficulties with the cast, crew, and camera equipment in the harsh cold. Most of the cast were Sami, and were used to the cold, but the stuntmen hired from outside the region refused to work under such conditions and were replaced by a team who had worked in the Bond film "A View to a Kill". There was also sabotage of the equipment by local people suspicious of outsiders.