Sirkka Saarnio

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. (imdb)

A suspicious stranger comes to a peaceful, if isolated, island and gets along well with a local girl whose fiancé is out on the sea.