Tomten: A Winter Tale
Directed by Gösta Roosling"The snow shines white on the roofs. Only Santa is awake." A film adaptation of Victor Rydberg's poem "Santa."
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- RavlorJanuary 12, 2026Cozy short and a classic to watch during Christmas. Captures the long gone Swedish identity of farmers and their superstitions. In Swedish both Gnomes and Santa Claus are called Tomten. This is more of the Gnome version, said to be living secretly on the farms helping the humans to take care of the animals and the farm, as long as you also take care of the Tomte.
Tomten: A Winter Tale Trivia
Tomten: A Winter Tale was released on December 8, 1941.
Tomten: A Winter Tale was directed by Gösta Roosling.
Tomten: A Winter Tale has a runtime of 12m.
"The snow shines white on the roofs. Only Santa is awake." A film adaptation of Victor Rydberg's poem "Santa."
The key characters in Tomten: A Winter Tale are Tomten (Hartwig Eriksen), Storyteller (Hilda Borgström), Göran Bernhard.
Tomten: A Winter Tale is a Short, Drama, Family film.
Tomten: A Winter Tale has an audience rating of 6.8 out of 10.