Cinema
Tante Pose
Leif Sinding · 1940
Synopsis
Christmas is being prepared in the wealthy Bals household when the magistrate's sister, Blanca Bals, announces her visit: a sharp-tongued spinster whom everyone calls Aunt Pose. She and the old grandfather of the house cannot stand each other, and their open war upsets the festive plans of the whole family, children included. Amid the preparations and the quarrels, an idyll is also gradually taking shape.
Context
The film is based on a Christmas story by Gabriel Scott published in 1904, for which Sinding wrote the screenplay. According to Dagbladet, filming was under way at the Norsk Film studios, at Jar, when Germany invaded the country on 9 April 1940: the crew scattered, was brought together again, and the studio was soundproofed against the noise of aircraft. The film was released on 6 September 1940 and was one of the great successes of the year; Norwegian television broadcast it for the first time on Christmas Day 1970.
Who it is for
A black and white Christmas comedy, in Norwegian, for those who like family quarrels and the festivities of the past.
Prizes and reception
It became a New Year's Eve fixture on Norwegian television, first on NRK, then on TV 2.