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Eureka Entertainment will release Erik Blomberg's haunting folk tale in April.
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Eureka Entertainment are set to add director Erik Blomberg's 1952 Finnish fantasy The White Reindeer to their Masters of Cinema series with a new 4K restoration hitting blu-ray April 8th.
Mirjami Kuosmanen plays a young woman who becomes frustrated with her solitary life in the wilds of Finland while her husband is off herding reindeer. Seeking thrills, she downs a potion and becomes a shapeshifter who lures the local men to their doom.
Special features include a limited slipcase with the first 2000 copies; commentary by critic and film historian Kat Ellinger; a video essay by film journalist and writer Amy Simmons; Blomberg’s 1947 documentary short With the Reindeer; colour test footage; 1952 Jussi Awards Ceremony featurette; and a booklet featuring new writing by film critic and writer Alexandra Heller Nicholas and journalist Philip Kemp.
Check out Eureka's new trailer below.
The official synopsis reads:
A newly-married young woman, Pirita (Mirjami Kuosmanen), becomes frustrated and lonely as her husband, a reindeer herder for a small Arctic village, spends much of his time away from home in devotion to his work. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her an irresistible object of desire, but there is a terrible cost. Pirita becomes a bloodthirsty shapeshifter who lures men out into the barren wilderness where she consumes them.