Joyeux Noel (merry Christmas)

2006 • 116 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, JOYEUX NOEL (Merry Christmas) tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger (Troy), Daniel Brühl (Good Bye Lenin!) and Benno Fürmann (The Princess and the Warrior) head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film. (Original Title - Joyeux Noel (merry Christmas)) © 2005 Nord-Ouest Production, Senator Film Produktion, Joyeux Noel Ltd., Artemis Productions, MediaPro Pictures, TF1 Films Production and Les Productions de La Gueville. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

Stirring stuff. Melodramatic and some questionable accents (even though some are the actors' own) but, as a Scot, the defiant ending in particular is one that always brings cheer.

A story in need of telling and this does it. Anti war!

A moving film and something different from most other Christmas movies.