The White Reindeer (1952)

Original title

Valkoinen peura

Directed by

Erik Blomberg

Genre

fantasy film, horror film

Country

Finland

Runtime

1h 14m

Rated

S

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 85 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the snowy Finnish tundra, a newly married woman named Pirita visits a shaman and becomes a shapeshifting white reindeer that lures men to their deaths. The film explores her transformation from a lonely bride into a cursed creature of the wilderness.

folkloriceerieslow-burnhypnotictragicatmosphericcoldsupernatural

What happens

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. Based on pre-Christian Finnish mythology and Sami shamanism, the film is set in the Finnish Lapland and centers on a young woman, Pirita (Kuosmanen). The White Reindeer 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 1956 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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