But now it's a fact. Producers of the film based on Jo Nesbo's world famous detective novel, needed a freezer of exactly this kind. And now they have found it after advertised on a local Facebook page.

Last night a man came from the film crew and picked up the freezer at Nilssen's aunt and uncle's home in Rjukan, where it has worked as a carpenter bench in the workshop in recent years.

- I'm thinking about Val Kilmer who will crawl into Grandma and Grandpa's old freezer! - laughing Nilssen referring to news that VG recently reported on the Hollywood star filming in the movie here.

"Snowman" producer did not have to pay for it. Nilssen's aunt let the film crew get the broken freezer, which has not been working in years, absolutely free.

- I have long been trying to get rid of it, so I said clearly that I don't want it back. The man who took it said to me that "Next time you’ll see it it’ll be on the big screen," says Berit Hesjedal Gustavsen.

She had never dreamed that the media would call after she had passed the freezer. She was contacted by Varden yesterday, and when VG rang, she was quite reticent because she didn’t want anything stir.

But she admits it's a little funny.

- I've read “The Snowman”, and now I have to also watch the film, - she says.

Nilssen tells VG that the world would never come to know that the freezer in the film stemmed from just her family unless she herself had written about it on Facebook.

- My mother had a birthday Tuesday, and then aunt mentioned it. They sent my mother a message to me and she told me. It was only when I wrote about this on Facebook yesterday.

What makes it all a bit extra special is that Nilssen's marketing manager in the department of children and youth in Aschehoug is a publisher who released “The Snowman" in 2007.

- I live in Oslo, but was born and raised in Rjukan. I'm really Rjukan-patriot, so all the publishers thought it was extra fun on my behalf when it became known that parts of the film should be filmed there. And now comes this as well! It's so funny, - sparkles Nilssen.

Asking when she last saw freezer, Nilssen responding:

- I think it was built on the old nursery in the apartment of my parents. But that may be wishful thinking, - she laughs.

Press officer for the film, Sasha Gibson, told the Varden yesterday:

- Why we need the freezer, we leave it to your imagination. But the freezer is thus something we need for an important moment in the film.

For the benefit of anyone who has not read 'The Snowman', but that goes with plans to see the movie, does not reveal VG which scenes containing a freezer. But it's about death, is well no surprise.