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The White Reindeer is a finlandais film of genre Drama directed by Erik Blomberg with Mirjami Kuosmanen
The White Reindeer (1952)
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Add to a movie listThe White Reindeer (Finnish: Valkoinen peura) is a 1952 Finnish horror drama film directed by Erik Blomberg. It was entered in competition at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival and earned the Jean Cocteau-led jury special award for Best Fairy Tale Film. After its limited release five years later in the United States, it was one of five films to win the 1957 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film.
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The film, based on pre-Christian Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism, is set in Finnish Lapland and centers on a young woman, Pirita. In the snowy landscape, Pirita and reindeer herder Aslak meet and soon marry. Aslak must spend time away for work, leaving his new bride lonely. In an effort to alleviate her loneliness and ignite marital passion, Pirita visits the local shaman, who indeed helps her out; but in the process turns her into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer. The villages' men are drawn to her and pursue her, with tragic results.Actors
Mirjami Kuosmanen
(Pirita / Maarita)
Kalervo Nissilä
(Aslak)
Åke Lindman
(Forester)
Arvo Lehesmaa
(Tsalkku-Nilla)
Pentti Irjala
(Speaker (uncredited))
Aarne Tarkas
(Groom (uncredited))
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