Home for Christmas () 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)