Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
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| Directed by | Jalmari Helander |
| Produced by | Petri Jokiranta |
| Written by | Jalmari Helander |
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Tommi Korpela Per Christian Ellefsen Jorma Tommila Jonathan Hutchings Onni Tommila Risto Salmi Peeter Jakobi Rauno Juvonen Ilmari Järvenpää |
| Music by | Juri Seppä Miska Seppä |
| Cinematography | Mika Orasmaa |
| Edited by | Kimmo Taavila |
| Distributed by | FS Film Oy (Finland) Scanbox Entertainment (Norway) Chrysalis Films (France) |
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82 minutes |
| Country | Finland Norway France Sweden |
| Language | Finnish English |
| Budget | €1.803 million |
| Box office | US$4,015,133 |
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 Finnish dark fantasy horror thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander about people living near the Korvatunturi mountain who discover the secret behind Santa Claus. The film is based on the 2003 short film Rare Exports Inc., and its 2005 sequel Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions, by Jalmari Helander and Juuso Helander, both of which involve a company that traps wild Santa Clauses and trains and exports them to locations around the world.
Far away in Lapland a British research team, Subzero, is examining drilling specimens on top of Korvatunturi (Fell Ear). The evidence is clear. The entire fell is an ancient burial mound built by the Saami for centuries, inside which something is hidden. As the men begin to excavate, two boys, Juuso and Pietari, sneak to eavesdrop at the team's discussions, led by a researcher, Brian Greene. The children run to Juuso's snowmobile and quarrel about Santa Claus's existence, but were interrupted as the research team detonate the fell. Pietari returns home to read some books about Santa Claus, which suggest that he was a horned being who whips misbehaving children and boils them in a cauldron.
The day before Christmas Eve, Pietari's father Rauno, a local reindeer slaughterer, digs a trap pit in the yard to protect the remaining reindeer in case of wolves. He wakes Pietari up by shooting at his window and tells him to prepare for rounding up reindeer herds with the other herders at the electric reindeer pen. This year, there were only two skinny reindeer runts, so Rauno and the herders go to a glacier by Korvantunturi. When they reach there they find the remains of hundreds of reindeer that were gnawed to the bone. It looks like the explosions that have been going on at the fell for months have driven the wolves in the area mad. Rauno, examines the carcasses worriedly Farther away Pietari too examines the traces and is convinced that it's not the work of wolves, while Juuso warns him not to tell his father that they plied open the fence to Korvantunturi.
Rauno's reindeer slaughterhouse has been on the brink of bankruptcy for a long time. The attack of the wolves seems to be the final straw. But Rauno has one more chance. He heads to Korvatunturi to demand retribution from the Subzero company, whose personnel were killed for provoking a mysterious new threat by their rude behaviour. On the top of the fell all Rauno and his group foundnd is a pit 400 meters deep and no trace of the Subzero personnel. It looks as if something was lifted from the depths of hell. Having lost all hope Rauno returns to his farm.
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