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The White Reindeer (Finnish: Valkoinen peura, Swedish: Den Vita Renen) is a 1952 Finnish folk horror film directed by Erik Blomberg in his feature film debut. Blomberg wrote the screenplay with his wife Mirjami Kuosmanen, who also stars in the lead role.
The White Reindeer: Directed by Erik Blomberg. With Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä, Åke Lindman, Jouni Tapiola. A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
A sombre mood of loneliness and overwhelming isolation hangs heavy over the succession of almost indistinguishable landscape images which open cinematographer Erik Bloomberg’s 1952 directorial debut: a proto-folk horror cum ethnographic fairy-tale from Finland called The White Reindeer (Valkoinen peura). The scene is set immediately: we are ...
The White Reindeer 1952 1h 14m Drama Horror List 100% Tomatometer 10 Reviews 61% Audience Score 100+ Ratings A shaman turns a newlywed woman into a vampiric white reindeer after she seeks his...
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A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Apr 1, 2019 · The White Reindeer is set among a community of Sami reindeer-herders in Finnish Lapland. In an introduction narrated by a haunting song, we witness the birth of Pirita (later to be played by Mirjami Kuosmanen) and subsequent death of her mother (also played by Kuosmanen).
Set in Lapland during colonial times, this eerie, haunting horror film centers on a tribe of close-knit, deeply religious and superstitious people who live in a bleak, barren, snow-covered mountainous region where life is often tough, exacting and thankless.
