A charming Stavanger romantic Christmas comedy!
It is the evening before Christmas Eve. Pia comes home after being away on a trip for six months, and expects to pick up where she left off. The goal is to find Kristoffer, the boyfriend who was supposed to have come on the trip but backed out at the last minute. It turns out to be more complicated than she had thought. Kristoffer seems to have vanished into thin air.
In her search for Kristoffer, Pia encounters several more or less disgruntled people: Vegar, Pia's old best friend, sleepless and frustrated over an imagined physical ailment. Rap artist Gary, disappointed by a lack of problems to rap about. British oil worker Wayne, with a disillusioned view of love that brought him to Norway. Rock guitarist Stian who works at a garden centre because his record deal fell through. And a principled taxi driver. In the middle of all this Santa Claus turns up, and things start to happen.
Film info
Running time: 1h 24min
Produced: Norway, 2001
Original title: Mongoland
Director: Arild Østin Ommundsen
Audio: Norwegian
Subtitles: None
Age rating: 12 years
Screening format: DCP
