This week on “Picture Perfect,” we look beyond our shores for an hour of wintry scenes from world cinema, with entries from England, Finland, the Soviet Union and Japan.

“Dersu Uzala,” from 1975, was one of the best of Akira Kurosawa’s later films, although it seems to have slipped into obscurity in the shadow of “Kagemusha” and “Ran.” The plot concerns the friendship in the early 20th century between a Russian explorer and an East Asian trapper and hunter, who acts as his guide.

“Dersu Uzala” was the last of Kurosawa’s works to be recognized with an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The music is by Isaac Schwartz.

Snow again is in abundance in “The White Reindeer,” a Finnish film from 1952. Set in Lapland, it tells the tale of a lonely herder’s wife, who visits a local shaman and is transformed into a shapeshifting, vampiric white reindeer.

The film was honored at the Cannes Film Festival with a special award for Best Fairy Tale Film, and at the Golden Globes as Best Foreign Film. Einar Englund wrote the music.

Sergei Prokofiev’s concert suite from “Lieutenant Kijé ” is very well known, but for some reason the film is not. In fact, it has been widely circulated in program notes that the film was never actually completed, which is false. It has not been available for purchase in the U.S. for as long as I can remember, but you can watch it here:

Why Criterion can’t get a hold of this one, I don’t know, but I’m sure there must be an explanation. The famous sleigh-ride, the “Troika,” begins just before the 45 minute mark. Note that the baritone on the soundtrack is none other than the composer himself, who thought the original singer employed for the purpose too refined.

Finally, we head to the South Pole with Robert Falcon Scott, for “Scott of the Antarctic.” England’s Ealing Studios is best recognized for its classic comedies of the 1950s, many of them starring Alec Guinness. There’s not much funny about this harrowing story, released in 1948, which stars John Mills and sports the most celebrated film score of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vaughan Williams’ music perfectly reflects the sublime, austere beauty of a hostile environment. Material from the score was later reworked to create his Symphony No. 7, the “Sinfonia Antarctica.”

Bring your gloves and a hat. It’s a small world of cold this week, on “Picture Perfect,” this Friday evening at 6 ET, with a repeat Saturday morning at 6, or you can listen to it later as a webcast at http://www.wwfm.org.