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Christmas Story

Joulutarina

2007

Centuries ago in Lapland, an orphaned boy is taken in each year by a different family, and to repay their kindness he begins carving wooden toys for the village children — the humble origins, this Finnish tale imagines, of Santa Claus. A warm holiday fable.

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