Rare Exports - A Christmas Story

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Movie
German title Rare Exports - A Christmas Story
Original title Rare exports
Rare Exports.jpg
Country of production Finland
Norway
Sweden
France
original language Finnish
Publishing year 2010
length 84 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 12
Rod
Director Jalmari Helander
script Jalmari Helander
production Petri Jokiranta
music Yuri Seppä
camera Mika Orasmaa
cut Kimmo Taavila
occupation

Rare Exports - A Christmas story (Original title: Rare Exports ) is a Finnish horror comedy by the director Jalmari Helander from 2010.

action

Pietari and Juuso watch as workers, led by scientist Riley, try to dig up Santa Claus on the summit of Korvatunturi . They work their way up to his grave with explosives. The reindeer hunt begins the following day . However, all but two of the reindeer have already been killed. Pietari's father Rauno assumes that they were killed by wolves who came to Russia through a hole in the border fence. He blames the workers on the summit for the hole, but it actually came from Juuso. However, the children fear the fathers will be punished and therefore do not say anything. Pietari, who has already read the old fairy tales about Santa Claus, is convinced that Santa Claus is responsible for the dead reindeer.

In the following days strange things happen in the small village. Rauno finds someone in a trap who he thinks is dead. When he examines him with his friend Piiparinen, they notice that he is still alive. Pietari arrives, and the man who is thought to be dead suddenly becomes aggressive and stares at Pietari. Pietari tells his father that this is Santa Claus and that he wants to take the bad children with him and that he is the last child in the village. Shortly afterwards they hear a radio message from the jacket that Santa Claus was wearing. The scientist wants to know when Santa Claus will be delivered, not knowing that his endeavor has gone wrong. Rauno, Piiparinen and Aimo meet with the scientist to sell him Santa Claus for US $ 85,000. The scientist tells them that this is not Santa Claus, but an imp . Meanwhile, Pietari finds the real Santa Claus and the children from the village in a large hall and brings his father and his friends there too. Santa Claus is to be thawed in this. The elves are waiting in front of the hall to attack the people. To make them disappear, Pietari lets himself and the other children of Piiparinen be thrown out; since the elves want to collect the children, they follow them. Rauno and Aimo use the time to kill Santa Claus with explosives. As a result, the 198 pixies lose their goal and just stand around idly. The people from the village teach the elves how to behave as a good Santa Claus and export them to all countries in the world.

background

In 2003 the advertising company Woodpecker Film published the short film Rare Exports Inc. by director Jalmari Helander on the Internet. This is about three hunters who are looking for the wild St. Nicholas in Lapland . The film was very well received by its audience, which is why Woodpecker Film released a second short film in 2005, entitled Rare Exports: The Official Safety Instructions .

The film is loosely based on a Christmas fairy tale by Markus Rautio .

publication

The film premiered on September 24, 2010 at the Fantastic Fest in Austin . In Finland , Rare Exports was released on December 3, 2010. In Germany, the film was released on November 25, 2011 on DVD and Blu-Ray by the distributor Splendid Film .

Rare Exports was named Best Film at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival 2011 . Jalmari Helander also received the award for best director.

reception

The film received mostly positive reviews. For Alex Attimonelli of the film magazine Cinema , Rare Exports was the must-see of the month January 2012. Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and describes it as “an original, cheeky, carefully made film” (“ an original, daring , carefully crafted film “) . Patrick Smith of the Daily Telegraph gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and particularly praised the acting performances and the staging of the grotesque scenario with great seriousness. However, he criticized the shortness of the film and the end.

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Reviews

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Awards 2010. Accessed December 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ Alex Attimonelli, Cinema, January 2012 edition.
  3. ^ Roger Ebert: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. In: Chicago Sun-Times . December 22, 2010, accessed December 23, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Patrick Smith: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, DVD review. In: The Daily Telegraph . December 6, 2011, accessed December 23, 2011 .