Klaus finally tells Jesper about his wife, Lydia, and explains he had made the toys to give to the future children the couple hoped to have, but they couldn't conceive and Lydia died from an illness. Klaus initially refuses, but then works with Jesper to build a sled for a small girl named Márgu, who lives in an isolated settlement with her people. With Jesper's deadline approaching, he tries persuading Klaus to make more toys in time for Christmas. When Jesper tells them Klaus only gives toys to good children, and knows whenever any child misbehaves, the acts of kindness they perform gradually inspire the rest of the townsfolk to end their ancient dispute, and Alva to reopen her school to help the children learn to read and write so they can send letters.Įventually, Jesper and Klaus begin running out of toys. Soon, more children begin writing letters to Klaus. Family elders Tammy Krum and Aksel Ellingboe each explain and show their clans' histories of hatred with each other, which have gone on for a long time, and find out it was Jesper and Klaus who delivered the Krum boy the toy. The Krum boy's toy leads him to play with an Ellingboe girl, much to their clans’ outrage. Jesper capitalizes on the idea, and asks Klaus if he can donate his toys Klaus agrees provided they operate at night and Jesper continues to deliver the toys in secret. Word of this event spreads to other children and they go to Jesper the next day, each believing they will receive a toy if they send Klaus a letter. Klaus forces Jesper to bring him to the house depicted in the drawing and then secretly deliver a toy to the boy inside. Terrified by Klaus' imposing appearance, Jesper flees and leaves behind a sad drawing he had found from one of Smeerensburg’s Krum children. There, he discovers a reclusive woodsman named Klaus, who has a house filled with handmade toys. While desperately searching for people to post letters, Jesper finds an isolated lumberman dwelling far outside the town. Upon arrival, it is explained to Jesper by sarcastic ferryman Mogens, and bitter teacher-turned-fishmonger Alva, that the town's two familial clans-the Ellingboes and the Krums-comprise nearly all of Smeerensburg's populace and are perpetually conflicted, spending more time hating each other than writing letters. If Jesper fails, he will be cut off from the family's fortune. Jesper deliberately underperforms, forcing his father to finally send him to the distant, northern island town of Smeerensburg with the task of posting six-thousand letters within a year. In 19th-century Norway, Jesper Johansen is the lazy, spoiled, self-centered son of the Royal Postmaster General, who has enrolled Jesper into his postman training academy hoping that it will reform him. The film was also nominated at the 92nd Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, making it the first animated film from Netflix to be nominated for an Academy Award, as well as the first animated film from a streaming service to be nominated, alongside I Lost My Body, but lost to Toy Story 4, which also starred Cusack. It won seven awards at the 47th Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature, and also won Best Animated Film at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. Klaus was released on 8 November 2019 and received critical acclaim for its animation, story, and vocal performances. Serving as an alternate origin story of Santa Claus independent from the historical Saint Nicholas of Myra and using a fictional 19th-century setting, the plot revolves around a postman stationed in an island town to the Far North who befriends a reclusive toymaker (Klaus). Simmons, Rashida Jones, Will Sasso, Neda Margrethe Labba, Sergio Pablos, Norm Macdonald (in his final film role released in his lifetime), and Joan Cusack. Co-written by Zach Lewis and Jim Mahoney, and co-directed by Carlos Martinez Lopez, the traditionally animated film stars the voices of Jason Schwartzman, J. Klaus is a 2019 Spanish-American animated Christmas film written and directed by Sergio Pablos in his directorial debut, produced by his company Sergio Pablos Animation Studios and distributed by Netflix.
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