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The White Reindeer (1952)

Deep in the Arctic wilderness of Lapland, the young Sámi woman Pirita (Mirjami Kuosmanen), newly married to the kind but intimately remote reindeer herder Aslak (Kalervo Nissilä), takes drastic measures to relieve her sexual frustration. During one of her husband’s … Continue reading

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The Thief of Baghdad (1961)

Although the Douglas Fairbanks vehicle The Thief of Bagdad (1924) was a pastiche not based on any particular tale in the Arabian Nights, it inspired a strain of remakes, each of which banked on the audience’s familiarity with the title … Continue reading

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The Stone Flower (1946)

Soviet cinema’s master fantasist, Aleksandr Ptushko, forged the path that would make his reputation following a forced hiatus from filmmaking during WWII. He had previously supervised the production of a number of stop-motion shorts for Mosfilm as well as directed … Continue reading

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