The Earth Is a Sinful Song

1973 • Directed by

Rauni Mollberg

Drama

An archaic World with Sex, Death, Violence and Religious Madness

An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows