Home for Christmas | |
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Hjem til jul | |
Directed by | Bent Hamer |
Written by | Bent Hamer |
Starring |
Trond Fausa Aurvåg Fridtjov Såheim Reidar Sørensen Ingunn Beate Øyen Nina Andresen Borud Tomas Norström Joachim Calmeyer Kai Remlov Cecilie Mosli Arianit Berisha Igor Necemer Nina Zanjani Henriette Steenstrup Gard Eidsvold Robert Skjærstad Levi Henriksen Kyrre Haugen Sydness Aina Emilie Bækkevold Marcus Eiel Fagervik |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
Country |
Norway Sweden Germany |
Language | Norwegian |
Home for Christmas (Norwegian: Hjem til jul) is a 2010 Norwegian comedy-drama film directed by Bent Hamer.
“Home for Christmas” is based on a selection of short stories from the Norwegian author Levi Henriksen’s collection, ”Only Soft Presents Under the Tree”. These stories, which now and then intersect with each other, all take place in Henriksen’s fictitious small town of Skogli, over a couple of hours on Christmas Eve.
Following a prologue set in war-torn former Yugoslavia, the film follows several different Christmas celebrations in the small Norwegian town of Skogli. Paul is a thirty-three-year-old laborer who marches into his doctor's office demanding a prescription, then proceeds to lay bare all his woes. The doctor is beleaguered by his own marital and financial difficulties (he's left his upset wife to work emergency calls on Christmas Eve). There's also an elderly man preparing an esoteric ritual, a vagrant who runs into an old flame, a middle-aged couple in the throes of passion, a boy hopelessly in love with his Muslim neighbor and a young émigré couple whose car breaks down as the woman goes into labor.
by John Erik Kaada
sung by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn - lyrical tenor
text in thai language by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn
written and sung by Maria Mena
Amanda
Trond Fausa
John Christian Rosenlund
Petter Fladeby
Audience Choice Award
Bent Hamer
Toronto Int. Film Festival 2010
London IFFF
Sao Paulo Film festival etc. Hamburg Filmfest
Lübecker Filmtage