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Hjem til jul

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
Release date
  • 2010 (2010)
Running time
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



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