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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 ...
Santa Claus and the Magic Drum (original Finnish title: Joulupukki ja noitarumpu, Swedish: Jultomten och trolltrumman) is a 51 minute long Finnish-Hungarian animation released in 1996. [1] The story is based on a 1995 children's book of the same name by Mauri Kunnas. The film has been recorded in Finnish, English (British) and Swedish.
The name joulupukki literally means ' Christmas goat ' or ' Yule goat ' in Finnish; the word pukki comes from the Old Swedish word bukker, a cognate of English "buck", meaning ' billy-goat '. An old Nordic folk tradition , the figure is now often conflated with Santa Claus .
Santa's wife is simply known as Mrs. Claus. Her first name is unknown, and it's unclear if that's because she prefers to maintain an air of mystery or because we live in a patriarchal society that ...
The Blu-ray version includes the two original short films and a variety of featurettes, such as a "Making Of", a look at the concept art, explanation of the animatics and computer-generated imagery, the notoriously contemptible [8] [9] feature film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, and other extras. [10]
Courtesy of Netflix. 38. Christmas on the Square (2020). Cast: Dolly Parton, Christine Baranski, Jenifer Lewis Rating: PG Honestly, we were sold after catching a glimpse of Parton as a dazzling ...
Allen reprised the role for 2002’s The Santa Clause 2 and 2006’s The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. More than a decade later he slipped back on the red suit and hat for Disney+’s The ...
The Magic Crystal (Finnish: Maaginen kristalli), also released as Santa's Magic Crystal [1] and The Elf that Rescued Christmas [2] in the UK, is a 2011 Finnish-Belgian computer-animated Christmas film directed by Antti Haikala from a screenplay by Haikala, Bob Swain, Dan Wicksman, Nuria Wicksman and Alessandro Liggieri. [3]