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Next Christmas

Ensi jouluna

1986  |  Fiction  |  22 min

Next Christmas is a film about a young woman’s love, and the war, which alters the course of her life. Every Christmas the woman waits for her husband to return from the war, not accepting the fact that he has died.

The film was meant to be part of a trilogy named Faces of War (Next Christmas, The Hero and The Soldier). The lack of funding, however, brought the filming of the second part to an untimely halt, and the trilogy was never completed.

Next Christmas

    Crew

    Cast: Riitta Piironen, Jarmo Jämsen, Irma Petterberg, Eila Nyman
    Director and screenwriter: Arto Halonen
    Cinematography: Seppo Putkinen
    Editing: Arto Halonen
    Original music: Kari Mikkonen
    Lighting: Teppo Saarinen
    Script supervisor: Teija Petterberg
    Camera and lighting assistants: Raimo Hätinen, Esa Mäkinen
    Sound recording: Teija Petterberg, Olavi Gröhn
    Make-up: Eija Petterberg, Leena Myllylä-Laakkonen
    Producer: Arto Halonen
    Production company: Art Films production AFP Ltd