Wednesday 17 November 2021

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JOULUTARINA

 

The story begins just before Christmas, hundreds of years ago in Lapland where a little boy named Nikolas loses his parents and sister in an accident.

After being left all alone the villagers decide to collectively look after the orphaned boy as no one family can afford to take the boy in permanently so every year on Christmas Day, Nikolas moves to a new home.

Grateful to the villagers for their kindness Nikolas chooses to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents and over the years, his former adoptive families grow in number and soon almost every house in the village has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning.

Then when he is thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids him to continue making presents for Christmas.

Gradually though he wins Iisakki's trust and together the pair begin to look after the Christmas tradition that Nikolas had begun.

But many years later the aged Iisakki must leave Nikolas and move away to live with his estranged children and he thinks that he must once again return to the tradition of delivering Christmas presents on his own but his best friends daughter Aada has different ideas.

Made in Finland, it’s a lovely Christmas story, well-acted and beautifully photographed, performed Finnish and dubbed into English.

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