Joulutarina is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 directed by Juha Wuolijoki. It is the story of how an orphan called Nikolas became Santa Claus

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...

. The Finnish premiere was on 16th November 2007. It was largely shot on location in Utsjoki

Utsjoki

Utsjoki is a municipality in Finland. It is located in Lapland and borders Norway as well as the municipality of Inari. The municipality was founded in 1876. It has a population of and covers an area of ofwhich is water. The population density is....

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Plot

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 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. It becomes a tradition from then, with Nikolas never forgetting 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 Iisakki as his carpenter's 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, and as he grows old he becomes the figure known as Santa Claus

Santa Claus

Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...

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Cast

• Hannu-Pekka Björkman - Nikolas
• Otto Gustavsson - Young Nikolas
• Kari Väänänen
  Kari Väänänen
  Kari Väänänen is a Finnish actor. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki; and belongs to the list of his"trusted" stable of actors....
  
   - Iisakki
• Minna Haapkylä - Kristiina
• Mikko Leppilampi
  Mikko Leppilampi
  Mikko Johannes Leppilampi is a Finnish actor and musician who is the son of Jukka Leppilampi , a Finnish gospel musician. Leppilampi is considered to be one of the most promising stars of Finland's movie industry in the new millennium...
  
   - Hannus
• Mikko Kouki - Eemeli
• Laura Birn
  Laura Birn
  Laura Birn is a Finnish film actress.She is most famous for her appearances in the 2003 film Helmiä ja sikoja alongside Mikko Leppilampi and most notably in her role in the 2005 film Lupaus....
  
   - Aada
• Antti Tuisku
  Antti Tuisku
  Antti Tapani Tuisku is a Finnish pop singer, made famous by the 2003 Idols talent show, the Finnish version of Pop Idol. Although Tuisku finished third in the show, he has easily become the most popular artist of the three. Currently Tuisku lives in Helsinki.Tuisku has sold over 200,000 records in...
  
   - Mikko
• Matti Ristinen - Einari
• Ville Virtanen
  Ville Virtanen (actor)
  - Filmography :* Ursula * Fakta homma * The Winter War * Sergeant Körmy and the Marshall's Stick...
  
   - Henrik
• Matti Rasilainen - Hermanni