Home for Christmas (2010) ( Hjem til jul (Hem till jul) ) ( Spiti gia ta Hristougenna )

Home for Christmas (2010) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Hjem til jul (Hem till jul)
Alternate Title: Spiti gia ta Hristougenna
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Norway ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Bent Hamer

Written By:
Bent Hamer
Levi Henriksen

Actors:
Nina Andresen Borud ..... Karin
Trond Fausa Aurvaag ..... Paul
Arianit Berisha ..... Goran
Joachim Calmeyer ..... Simon
Levi Henriksen ..... Security Man
Cecile Mosli ..... Elise
Patrick Mölleken ..... Thomas
Igor Necemer ..... Serb
Tomas Norström ..... Kristen
Kai Remlow ..... Paramedic
Morten Ilseng Risnes ..... Thomas
Sarah Bintu Sakor ..... Bintu
Isaka Sawadogo ..... Bintu's Father
Kristine Rui Slettebakken ..... Tone
Nadja Soukup ..... Goran's Mother

Synopsis:

A handful of initially unconnected stories cohere into a bittersweet portrait of the joys and anxieties of the holiday season in this comedy-drama from director Bent Hamer. A young boy in the former Yugoslavia (Arianit Berisha) discovers that Christmas cheer doesn't mean much in wartime. Meanwhile, in Norway Kristen (Tomas Norstrom) is celebrating the holiday in romantic fashion with Karin (Nina Andresen-Borud), while his wife is somewhere else. Thomas (Morten Ilseng Risnes) has a serious crush on Bintu (Sarah Bintu Sakor,), but the fact she's Muslim might make celebrating the holiday with her difficult. Paul (Trond Fausa Aurvag|) pays a last-minute visit to his doctor Knut (Fridtjov Saheim) about a prescription only to go into a long story about his wife Tone (Kristine Rui Slettebakken), who has not only kicked him out but also changed the locks at their home. Once he's finally done with Paul, Knut has to deal with a Serbian man (Igor Necemer) who threatens to kill him if he won't help him with his pregnant wife (Nina Zanjani). And Jordan (Reidar Sorensen) is a rough-hewn but cheerful drunkard who strikes up a friendship with tree salesperson Johanne (Ingunn Beate Oyen). Hjem Til Jul (aka Home For Christmas) was an official selection at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.

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.

The lives of people struggling to find their way home on a Christmas Eve beneath the colors of the Northern Lights. Adapted from a series of short stories by the Norwegian author Levi Henriksen.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 January, 2012.

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