A moose has escaped: Family comedy about a nine-year-old who makes the acquaintance of a moose that has crashed during a test flight with Santa.
Plot and background
Hope for little Bertil (Raban Bieling), who lives with his mother and sister in a cottage in the country and is always bullied by the other children: A moose has broken through the ceiling of the house and will now probably stay for a while. A moose that can talk, dance, play and teach bullies a lesson, mind you. Things get problematic when the landlord puts the new guest in the sights of his hunting rifle. There is also a rightful owner called Father Christmas.
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Just before Christmas, a talking moose crashes through the ceiling of the little cottage of Bertil, his sister Kiki and his mother Kerstin. Mr Moose claims he crashed during a test flight with Father Christmas and is pretty crazy in other ways too, but Bertil is determined that he has found a new friend. But it’s not all that easy when Santa and the moose hunter from next door are already on their way.
This year everything is different at Christmas: because one day a real moose plops down the chimney into the Wagner family’s house – he calls himself Mr Moose and was part of Santa’s team before his crash put an abrupt end to a test flight with the sleigh. But the joy of the children Bertil and Kiki over the new pet is short-lived, because not only hobby hunter Pannecke has it in for the moose, but also Father Christmas would like to have his cast complete again in the peak season.
