Home for Christmas (2010)

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.

Storyline

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.

Cast

Nina Andresen Borud as Karin

Arianit Berisha as Goran

Joachim Calmeyer as Simon

Trond Fausa as Paul

Levi Henriksen

Cecile Mosli as Elise

Igor Necemer as Serb

Tomas Norström as Kristen

Kai Remlov

Morten Ilseng Risnes as Thomas

Sarah Bintu Sakor as Bintu

Isaka Sawadogo as Bintu's father

Kristine Rui Slettebakken as Tone

Nadja Soukup as Goran's mother

Kyrre Haugen Sydness as Hroar

Fridtjov Såheim as Knut

Reidar Sørensen as Jordan

Nina Zanjani as Albanian woman

Ingunn Beate Øyen as Johanne Jakobsen

Soundtracks

Music

by John Erik Kaada

Silent Night (in thai language)

sung by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn - lyrical tenor

text in thai language by Songsit Ohm Lertsethtakarn

Home for Christmas (in English)

written and sung by Maria Mena

Award

Amanda Awards, Norway 2011

RiverRun International Film Festival 2011

See also

List of Christmas films

References

External links

Home for Christmas at IMDb