Monsters, Genre Hybrids, Movements & Traditions
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
2010
This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus
Directed by Jalmari Helander
User Rating
2.5
avg.
131
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Young Pietari lives with his reindeer-herding father in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, a nearby excavation makes a frightening discovery and an evil Santa Claus is unleashed…
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- Director
- Jalmari Helander
- Written by
- Jalmari Helander
- Produced by
- Agnès B., François-Xavier Frantz, Knut Skoglund
- Composers
- Juri Seppä, Miska Seppä
- Cinematographer
- Mika Orasmaa
- Editor
- Kimmo Taavila
- Sound Designers
- Jussi Honka, Timo Anttila, Tuomas Seppänen
- Studios
- Filmpool Nord, Love Streams Productions, Cinet
- Origin country
- Finland
- Production countries
- Finland, France, Norway, Sweden
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Language
- fi
- Rating
- R
- Also known as
- Rare Export - From the Land of the Original Santa Claus, The Truth About Santa Claus
- TMDB
- 6.2/10 (670 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 89% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 71/100
- IMDb
- 6.6/10 (35,136 votes)
Released December 3, 2010·Rare Exports
Awards
- WonSitges Film Festival— Best Film(2010)
Cast
Onni Tommila
Pietari
Jorma Tommila
Rauno
Tommi Korpela
Aimo
Rauno Juvonen
Piiparinen
Per Christian Ellefsen
Riley
Ilmari Järvenpää
Juuso
Peeter Jakobi
Pietari's Elf
Jonathan Hutchings
Greene
Risto Salmi
Sheriff
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Jens Sivertsen
Main Elf
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Sigmund Bøe
Main Elf
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Olav Pedersen
Main Elf
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Nils M. Iselvmo
Main Elf
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Steinar Skogstad
Elf
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Nils Nymo
Elf
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Hjalmar Iselvmo
Elf
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Steinar Tunes
Elf
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Torgeir Fosberg
Elf
