Aila, Pohjolan tytär (1951)

Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)

"A fascinating predecessor of White Reindeer, starring Mirjami Kuosmanen as well, shot and written by Erik Blomberg, but sporting a somewhat more conventional narrative. Except it doesn't, because it covers that traditional narrative with a thick layer of a narrator discussing whether this story and the people in it have ever truly existed, whether his narration is what has created the events that unfold, and how guilty he feels for inciting such a tragedy in his naïvete. It's 100% dropped befor"