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Christmas Story
Film poster
FinnishJoulutarina
Directed byJuha Wuolijoki
Written byMarko Leino
Produced byJuha Wuolijoki
StarringHannu-Pekka Björkman
Otto Gustavsson
Kari Väänänen
Minna Haapkylä
Mikko Leppilampi
Mikko Kouki
Music byLeri Leskinen
Release date
  • 16 November 2007 (2007-11-16)
Running time
83 minutes
CountryFinland
LanguageFinnish
Box office$4.3 million[1]

Christmas Story (Finnish: Joulutarina) is a 2007 Finnish Christmas drama film directed by Juha Wuolijoki. It is the story of how an orphan called Nikolas became Santa Claus.[2][citation needed]

Plot

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Many years ago, in Lapland, a boy named Nikolas is orphaned when his family are killed in an accident. The heads of the families in the village meet to decide his future and, as life in the arctic is difficult, it is decided that as no one family could care for him permanently, they would raise him communally, with each family taking him for one year, starting on Christmas Day, and then moving him on to the next. Grateful, Nikolas begins whittling toys out of wood as a gift which, each Christmas, he leaves for the family that cared for him.[3] It becomes a tradition from then, with Nikolas never forgets the children of those families that received him each year. When a blight hits the village, and none of the families can afford to take him in for the next year, he is taken in by grumpy hermit, carpenter named Iisakki, becoming his apprentice. Iisakki works him hard but Nikolas is clever and quick to learn, and Iisakki gradually grows to love Nikolas as his own son. Nikolas begins to live more and more for the spirit of Christmas with each passing year and it becomes his life[4] and as he grows old he becomes the figure known as Santa Claus.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Christmas Story - Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. ^ Story of how Santa Clause came to be Santa. Retrieved 26 February 2013
  3. ^ Christmas Story at Official Snapper Films website Archived 13 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 February 2013
  4. ^ Joulutarina (Christmas Story) Reviews at Rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 13 February 2013
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