Home for Christmas

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