Snekker Andersen og den vesle bygda som glømte at det var jul: Christmas film for young and old about little Elise, whose village doesn’t know what Christmas is.
Plot and background
As the days grow shorter and the snow thickens, little Elise (Miriam Kolstad Strand) is convinced she has forgotten something important. At the kiosk, a transient wishes her a Merry Christmas, but she wonders what this “Christmas” could be.
Her calendar shows a fir tree with wondrous lights on 24 December, and when she finds a wooden box with 24 painted doors in the attic, she starts to wonder. What could she have forgotten? Luckily, she finds the address of carpenter Andersen (Trond Espen Seim) on the box. She summons up all her courage, goes to him and wants to know what Christmas is all about. He advises her to visit Father Christmas (Anders Baasmo Christiansen) to teach her and her equally forgetful village the magic of Christmas again.
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“Elise and the forgotten Christmas” – background, cast, cinema release
The Norwegian Christmas film for the whole family does not only make children’s eyes grow bigger when Santa’s presents are seen. In Norway, “Elise and the Forgotten Christmas” took the cinema charts by storm, and in Germany, the Christmas family film awaits us in 2021. Director Andrea Eckerbom is making her film debut against a wintry backdrop, with John Kåre Raake (“The Wave”) contributing the screenplay.
The film stars Miriam Kolstad Strand for the first time, with Trond Espen Seim (“Varg Veum” series) and Anders Baasmo Christiansen (“Kon-Tiki”) taking on other leading roles.
The planned cinema release in November 2020 unfortunately had to be postponed due to the Corona crisis. “Elise and the Forgotten Christmas” will be released with a one-year delay on 11 November 2021 and has been approved by the FSK from 0 years onwards.
