The Earth Is a Sinful Song

The Earth Is a Sinful Song

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

Directed by Rauni Mollberg

Produced by RM-Tuotanto

1973108 min6.7 / 10

A bleak, sexually explicit drama of rural desperation and moral collapse in 1940s Lapland, where passion and family shame collide with tragic inevitability.

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

Questions people ask

  • Is The Earth Is a Sinful Song sad? Yes, very. More sad than 98% of films.

  • Does The Earth Is a Sinful Song end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 96% of films.

  • Is The Earth Is a Sinful Song violent? Yes. More violent than 88% of films.

  • Is The Earth Is a Sinful Song easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Earth Is a Sinful Song scary? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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Love55

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