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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a 2010 Finnish dark fantasy horrorthriller 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 a 2003 short film, Rare Exports Inc., by Jalmari Helander and Juuso Helander.
Far away in Lapland a British research team is examining drilling specimens on top of Korvatunturi (Fell Ear). The evidence is clear. The entire fell is an ancient burial mound, inside which something is hidden. The men begin to excavate.
The day before Christmas Eve the glacier by the fell has been colored red with blood. In the snow lie the remains of hundreds of reindeer. They have been 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. A local reindeer slaughterer, Rauno, examines the carcasses worriedly. Farther away is Rauno's son, Pietari. He too examines the traces and is convinced that it's not the work of wolves.
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 Americans. On the top of the fell all Rauno and Pietari find is a pit 400 meters deep and no trace of the Americans. It looks as if something was lifted from the depths of hell.
Having lost all hope Rauno returns to his farm. He digs a trap pit in the yard to protect the remaining reindeer in case of wolves.
On the morning of Christmas Eve the trap has worked, but there is no wolf trapped in it. Pietari has been full of fear of the approaching Christmas, like an animal sensing a more powerful beast in its territory. Now his worst fears are coming true.
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| Directed by | Jalmari Helander |
| Produced by | Petri Jokiranta |
| Written by | Jalmari Helander |
| Starring | 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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Running time
| 82 minutes[1] |
| Country | Finland Norway France Sweden[2] |
| Language | Finnish English |
| Budget | €1.803 million[3] |
| Box office | US$4,015,133[4] |
