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The White Reindeer MVD
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Finnish
- Genre:
- Internet videos
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 8 min., 20 sec)) sound
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Distributed by Infobase, 2025
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : MVD, [1952]
- System Details:
- Streaming video file
- System requirements: FOD playback platform
- video file
- Summary:
- The debut feature film by Finnish documentarian Erik Blomberg, this "eerie and spectacularly filmed horror experience" (Mondo Digital) remains a pioneering shocker of shamanism, vampirism and female sexuality. Unknowingly born a witch, a frustrated young Lapland wife (co-writer Mirjami Kuosmanen) shapeshifts into a bloodthirsty white reindeer with an insatiable appetite for the local herdsmen. Also released as Valkoinen peura. International Prize-Fairy Tale Film and nominated for Grand Prize of the Festival, Cannes Film Festival, 1953. Best Foreign Language Film, Golden Globes USA, 1957. In Finnish with English subtitles. Directed by Erik Blomberg. Finland. Some World Cinema titles may contain mature themes or content. Viewer discretion is advised
- Notes:
- Originally released by MVD, 1952
- Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 21, 2025
- Title from distributor's description
- Publisher Number:
- 296839 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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