Valkoinen Peura, The White Reindeer, Den Vita Renen

Released 1952 Finland. Written, directed and photographed by Erik Blomberg. Based on a Finnish legend. Music by Einar Englund. Starring Mirjami Kuosmanen, Kalervo Nissilä, Åke Lindman, Arvo Lehesmaa. Language Finnish. 68 minutes / BW

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Film & Animation

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• Valkoinen
• Peura
• White
• Reindeer
• Vita
• Renen
• Finland
• Финляндия
• Drama
• Fantasy
• Horror
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[Joonavainio]

No wonder, as Fenno-Ugric people and especially the Saame branch are distant relatives of native Americans. Glad you apparently like it. Valkoinen Peura is one of the rare gems amidst the endless and mindless B-comedies and stereotypical country romance dramas in Finnish film of the fifties.

Excluding Unknown Soldier from the above, of course.

[FinnMove]

Tämä leffa pitäisi laittaa näille sivuille

kokonaan. Musiikki tässä on on noin puolet

koko elokuvan ansioista.

[Phioletovii]

I feel sorry for her, I like her)

[larkin78]

Had the luxury of seeing this on the big screen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music years ago. Still one of my favorite films!

[Joonavainio]

@FFulmenTheFinnish

Well, if you want to pick nits, all homo sapiens sapiens currently alive and sampled trace back to the same mitochondrial "eve". Current research would suggest that the Saame came "recently" from Iberian peninsula, so they're pretty distant genetically from Southern Baltic Finns as well. There are genetic relatives, linguistic relatives, and generally cultural relatives. I meant mostly the latter with all the shamanic tradition.

[FFulmenTheFinnish]

@Joonavainio No they are not relatives...lol. A few Samis might be, but that's it.

[LappQueen]

This movie was finally released on DVD on April. Should be with English subtitles.

[motownmaniax]

Evocative and impressionistic scene. Thanks for sharing.

[bartje11]

Thanks for uploading this clip. It's great to hear Englund's soundtrack finally. He used some of this material also in his Piano Concerto no. 1.

[xyrtsv]

Hi, I want to try to find this movie some way, VHS or stg.. I remember this: I was

almost a kid or pre-teen then but Mirjami K. was hot and after all years this piece of

culture should be re-constructed or stg.

Regards;A,Juntunen, Finland

[maxhardcase]

This film won awards when it was first released in 1952.  Somebody needs to get busy and release this on DVD...looks like it might be happening since the movie is listed on Netflix but it's not yet available for rental.