The short film Räven och Tomten is produced by Norwegian Qvisten Animation and Astrid Lindgren Film. It is based on Astrid Lindgren's popular picture book. The book, with atmospheric illustrations by Eva Eriksson, was a great success when it was released at Christmas 2017 and is based on the poem, with the same title, by Karl-Erik Forslund. Joakim Berg from Kent has processed and set the poem to music as a leitmotif for the film. It is performed by Peter Jöback and Moonica Mac and is produced by Peter Kvint. The Norwegian jazz musician Gaute Storaas has composed the background music and the Swedish narration is done by Claes Månsson. Räven and Tomten premiered on Christmas Eve 2019 on SVT.
Fact
In 1949, the young German publisher Friedrich Oetinger was in Stockholm to meet the author Gunnar Myrdal. In a bookstore, he happened to hear about Pippi Langstrumpf. The rest is history – he requested a meeting with Astrid Lindgren and obtained a German option for the Pippi trilogy. Verlag Friedrich Oetinger in Hamburg still publishes all of Astrid Lindgren's children's books, and her great popularity in Germany remains intact. The film adaptations of her books were, in several cases, German co-productions, and they are still shown on German TV, especially around Christmas. Several of Astrid Lindgren's songs are very well known in their German translations, such as "Hey Pippi Langstrumpf!".