Astrid Lindgren's Christmas

Dec 5, 2024

0h 59m

★ 9.0

Overview

This Christmas special breathes new life into some of Astrid Lindgren's beloved stories. Some, we've seen before, some we've never seen in animated form and some are completely new. Centering around a mysterious cuckoo clock, this film brings us into the worlds of Emil, Brenda Brave and Nils Karlsson Pyssling among others.

Genres

Animation

Family

TV Movie

Production Companies

Qvisten Animation

The Astrid Lindgren Company

SVT

Astrid Lindgren's Christmas Trailers

Cast

Pippi Longstocking

Inger Nilsson

Tjorven

Maria Johansson

Melker

Torsten Lilliecrona

Lustig-Gök

Olof Wretling

Mamma

Cecilia Forss

Vilhelm Blomgren

Cornelia Dahl

Ingmar Grip

Yaprak Morali

An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly's life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.

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