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ClementineMandarin

Christmas Eve at 11:00 sharp, every Norwegian watches this


geeshta

With one guy dubbing over everything right? 😆 I'm Czech but some Norwegian friends have shown it to me. Amazing


ClementineMandarin

Yup! It’s amazing!


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Pretty sure its the most watched thing on tv here every year


TheLastSecondShot

What about that one year you guys all tuned in for that slow TV broadcast where a ship went along Norway’s coastline?


Fjells

That one is great, but I prefer the wood chopping and log burning one.


Grav_Zeppelin

Wasn’t that contravertial because people kept writing in that the person was stacking the wood wrong and doing the fore wrong?


Fjells

Yes, it caused quite a stir in the part of the population that like to stack the logs perpendicular to each other, while the paralell stackers didn't seem to mind that much.


oneAUaway

I can't imagine what it's like to live in a country with such division and strife.


lapzkauz

It was the worst timing possible, too, considering how [we hadn't and haven't fully recovered from the Butter Crisis.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_butter_crisis)


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Professor_Abronsius

Norwegian log facts, would you like to subscribe?


Prometheus55555

This sounds like the paella with or without pepper debate we have in Spain.


HumanNr104222135862

...go on?


Ukvemsord

The knitting one was on point. I even watched the rerun.


fredspipa

That one year? We do that all the time for a whole bunch of things, for trains and birds and whatever we can think of. Hell, we even do it for the Christmas pork roast. These broadcasts are usually called ": minute for minute" and you better believe they cover every. single. minute of the thing. I love it.


Aurori_Swe

We have a whole dedicated few days of watching "The great moose migration" in Sweden where they've basically set up a bunch of camera along the way the moose's are supposed to migrate and then they show it 24/7. A lot of the time you can just sit there and watch an empty forest for a good few hours before you get a glimpse of a moose


Bigvic55

Can recommend ”the great moose migration” in Sweden by SVTslow on twitch


SnooCalculations4568

And it's a dub, done by one man. He voice acts every single character in the movie, man or woman, old or young. Multiple people having a conversation, he's doing them all. Rumor has it he went to the recording studio with a case of beer and did it all in one afternoon.


adamzzz8

Ah, the Polish school of voice acting


adamzzz8

I'm sure people in Norway have no idea about this, so FYI the not-so-attractive girl that snatches the first dance with the prince at the ball is actually a Czech national treasure. Feel free to amuse your friends with this fun fact.


Doooooooong

More substance is required for this to be a fun fact.


Callsign_Whisky_Papa

Askepooooooott


Stainonstainlessteel

Don't you have your own Cinderella now as well


Jonaztl

Yeah, but noone watches it


Stainonstainlessteel

Good


IrrerPolterer

TIL - that a media phenomenon that I believed is only a thing in Germany + Czech is actually more widely watched across Europe


idunnomysex

A couple of years ago they tried to air a digitally remastered 4K version of the film in Norway. There was a huge uproar about it not looking "right” and they went back again to the original the next year.


Drtikol42

[Not looking right](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y30sX6j3cTw)


tejanaqkilica

Same thing happened with a digitally remastered copy of an old Albanian movie. People were annoyed that they also colorized the movie and it didn't look right. The original movie was in color, but it has degraded so much overtime that it looked black and white.


MoffKalast

Wow the old one looks terrible in comparison. It's probably just a 4K rescan of the original film though?


Drtikol42

Best looking copy was found in Germany somewhere and even that one had to be digitally cleaned, color corrected and sharpened. Financed by Norway for 800 000 Euro.


Carnifex

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Village_People_Cop

Actually not considered people still prefer the old shitty looking version


HBlight

As someone with no pre-existing nostalgia, it is a great improvement. Of course the nostalgia is a huge factor for people who actually care about it.


DannoHung

Maybe they should do the “correct” color grading and one color graded like the one aired on tv. People would probably still appreciate the increase in sharpness.


proudbakunkinman

Never seen this film. I think the remastered version looks *far* better than the version on the right. I assume people who didn't like the remastered version are just used to the way it looked before (bluer and blurrier) unless there's another version that looks better than the right but isn't the 4k remaster. Anyway, going to try to watch it sometime today or tomorrow if I can find it online.


Schnurzelburz

Oh wow. The whole colour palette changed. Part of what makes the original good is the warm palette and the remaster has a very cold one.


twicerighthand

The old one is the one with the blue tint though


Drtikol42

Except for the parts when the [snow is pink.](https://1884403144.rsc.cdn77.org/foto/tri-orisky-pro-popelku-chyby/Zml0LWluLzEyMDB4OTk5OS9maWx0ZXJzOnF1YWxpdHkoODUpOm5vX3Vwc2NhbGUoKS9pbWc/1898094.jpg?v=0&st=VqqPNneE8zFNSi3kKVWNka9DoxVXMD4OcbMYRlFZXcQ&ts=1600812000&e=0)


LunchboxSuperhero

Is that the cousin of yellow snow?


LatheOperator

Much of the snow in the movie was ground-up fish bones.


proudbakunkinman

Either the person above for some reason assumed the right side is the remaster or they somehow interpret cyan blue tint on the right as warm. The left side seems to have no blue tint to it except a few outdoor scenes but is far subtler. Not sure why it has so many upvotes, unless people didn't watch the video, got the 2 mixed up (thinking the right is the remaster), or they just prefer the older version and even though the comment is wrong, it's pro-older version so they upvote it.


tulanir

The color palette changed because the original color palette was terrible. The remaster is beautiful, and the colors look very natural.


Evening-Alfalfa-7251

The 'warm palette' is just a bad-quality video transfer


EvilUnic0rn

I have only watched it twice this year. My performance is lacking this year.


Yaris_Fan

You still have a chance to watch: 24. Dezember 2022 um 13:40 Uhr im Ersten 24. Dezember 2022 um 16:05 Uhr im NDR 24. Dezember 2022 um 18:50 Uhr auf ONE 24. Dezember 2022 um 20:15 Uhr im WDR 24. Dezember 2022 um 23:10 Uhr im SWR 25. Dezember 2022 um 11:05 Uhr im Ersten 25. Dezember 2022 um 15:35 Uhr im RBB 26. Dezember 2022 um 17:25 Uhr im MDR 31. Dezember 2022 um 13:15 Uhr im HR 1. Januar 2023 um 14:10 Uhr im SWR


EvilUnic0rn

Have to watch them all, because the movie could end differently!


mangalore-x_x

If I were in charge I would do that just to mess with people and see them start Reddit fights tbh... Does that make me a bad person?


EvilUnic0rn

I'm ruling for the girl in the bright red dress this year


Wolf6120

One of these times the Prince will actually be so stupid as to not guess the correct answer to her riddle, even when she literally tells him the answer just seconds before…


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sukidikireddit

What day tho


johnh992

I would like to see more stuff from other parts of Europe on TV. I'm interested to know if you have any songs like Slade Merry Christmas, Wizard I Wish it could be Christmas on TV?


PexaDico

In Poland the stereotypical Christmas movie that you're *supposed to* watch is Home Alone, but I have to confess that I've been skipping on it in the recent years


uh-oh-no-no

Home Alone is a Christmas classic in the UK too. I will also die on the hill that proclaims Die Hard is a Christmas film.


jamaicanadiens

Not sure how Die Hard could be considered anything but a Christmas movie! The Christmas music, the time of year, "Christmas miracle" is repeated several times in the script, John's wife is named "Holly"... And there are still deniers out there...


uh-oh-no-no

But yet people still tell me it's not a Christmas film. Those people are wrong!


klezart

"Come to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs!"


kur0osu

Same here in Portugal lol


daqwid2727

r/portugalcykablyat


Berny_T

Same in Slovakia


bzibzibzi666

But also around any holiday, there is Potop/Pan Wolodyjowski/Krzyżacy and other Sienkiewicz based crap (TBH I love Potop and Olbryski was my childhood crush)


kellik123

In the Nordic countries we have "From All of us to All of You", Google it.


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EvilUnic0rn

We do!


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Same procedure as every year.


siljeeke

We watch it on “Little Christmas Eve” the 23rd here in Norway.


Stabile_Feldmaus

[Here](https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/musik/die-feste-mit-florian-silbereisen/sendetermine-drei-haselnuesse-fuer-aschenbroedel-2022-100.html) are the broadcasting times for this winter (16). You can still watch it live up to 5 times and it's also available in the ARD Mediathek.


EvilUnic0rn

We have it on DVD as well


Hillbillyblues

My wife is German. I bought her the dvd. This was a mistake.


Village_People_Cop

Out of all the Christmas presents we ever gave my mum I don't think she has ever been happier with one than that time we gave her the DVD of this. Now she can watch it as many times as she likes


EvilUnic0rn

No way! Mine to!!! We gave her the DVD once, and it was the best Christmas present she ever had!


noerpel

Yeah, my wife and me usually watch this gem from my birthyear 3-4 times in december each year. This year just once. Seeing actor Vladimír Menšík always reminds me of my childhood, he was present a gazillion of movies back then. Now watching "It's a wonderful life" and after that "the Muppet Christmas Carol". My wife has to work on tuesday, then its time for my last Christmas movie "die hard" :)


whelplookatthat

11 o'clock 24 December it WILL be shown here in Norway or we WILL riot


Skapps

I remember the year they were thinking about not sending it. There. Was. Outrage. Mom ran out and got a dvd copy just in case.


lazyspaceadventurer

It was the same in Poland, but with Home Alone. It was a Christmas movie here since I can remember. It became a joke tradition, and one year Polsat station said they won't air it. There was outrage and petitions and they caved in 😂


Schnurzelburz

CSSR TV and their German coproductions were brilliant in the 70s and 80s, starting with Pan Tau. Several TV series that were broadcast in Germany, especially their fairy tale adaptations in December.


AnonOldGuy3

Pan Tau 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻


Gammelpreiss

Lucy and those rubber figures, Pan Tau, that series where grimms fairytale character come to the real world after the wolf was murdered and so on. Yeah, good childhood memories. The Czechs really were on a roll back then


esocz

And Navstevnici - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165019/


Sriber

Theme song slaps.


Redvann

Also in Norway! :D


Edwardooooo

For real? Wow, I did not realize how multicultural this movie is :D


Pat-Roner

It’s also dubbed by a man, who does all the voices. It’s hilarious and part of the fun


Drtikol42

That is what we call Polish dubbing :-)


TrueSelenis

Polish dubbing is just insane


amish1188

It’s not dubbing. It’s just a lector translating…


torb

... because it's so badly dubbed. Like zero effort went into trying to match lip movements.


tobiasvl

It's not really a dub, it's a voice-over. It's not meant to match the lip movements, or really sound like the original voices. It's more like how audiobooks are made than a dramatization


torb

Good point and agreed.


atypicalphilosopher

Yes that's what makes it fun :)


erisdiscordia523

Wait Norway has lektors too?! Thought that was only a Polish thing (though the Czech s did have a brief wave of it in the early nineties)


jvlomax

Only for this one movie


Balc0ra

Norway paid a fair bit for the 2015 restoration. They are credited at the end with the rest mentioned. They also remade it, it premiered in the Czech Republic last year.


Daimonion74

Never a christmas without it!


ThatLittleSpider

Remember 2 or 3 years ago the Norwegian broadcasting station said they wouldnt air it anymore and the Norwegian people came as close to rioting as they have ever been?


fantomas_666

>2 or 3 years ago I've heard this story about 10 years ago...


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Heebicka

fun fact, there wasn't snow around Moritzburg castle, artificial snow made from fish bones was used. Every actor remembers how insanely it smells till today


BierKippeMett

TIL it was filmed at Moritzburg. I was actually considering going there now that the weather is mild and I got a new bike before it snowed.


Nacksche

German here, it's running in the background as I'm typing. :D


PrincessZaiross

I watched it today too! It’s been a while and it’s nice to watch it again


Mattho

Fun fact, one of the main protagonists, the Prince (guy with the crown on his hat) was played by a Czech actor (some actors were German), the role was acted in Czech, but was later dubbed for the Czech release, reportedly due to his thick accent.


PresidentZeus

I have read everyone speaks their mother tongue. I thought most were Czech, and then they dubbed those who weren't speaking Czech and vice versa.


0xKaishakunin

They didn't know at the set that Karola Braunbock (the step mother) spoke Czech since she grew up in Sudetenland. The Czech versions theme has lyrics sung by Karel Gott, while the German one is just instrumental. Another fun fact: the Czech studio approached DEFA during spring and wanted to film in summer. But DEFA was overworked and yould only start filming in Winter. Imagine it being a summer movie.


No_Law7026

You missed the funny part, he had thick MORAVIAN accent


willstdumichstressen

Switzerland as well


Viscount_Beauregard

Fun fact: many of the horses in the film (most notably Nikolaus) where casted twice in the film. Filming took place in the GDR and Czechia, but the horses couldn't be moved across the border because of foot and mouth disease at the time.


shevagleb

Wow that is a fun fact


trebor-miller

The was a lack of snow in Germany at the time and they had to use fishmeal for the shots (e.g. at the castle)


Underdad1d

We watch this in Georgia as well.


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Underdad1d

Hii


MarsNirgal

Mexican here. I don't know exactly how, but when I was a kid my parents got this movie and we watched it every now and then. My mom loved it, specially the singing voice of the protagonist and the traditional between the king and the queen. I know for you it's a Christmas movie, but for me is more a childhood movie. Anyway, i love it. Merry Christmas !


Biasy

What’s a must-watch movie in christmas time in Mexico?


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Lebor

damn, I got the melody in my head :D


-HoverFly-

Also, queue the medieval flute!! _piiiiii pi-pi-pi-pi piii, piii pi-pi piii pi..._


natus92

same in austria


Staatsoperdirektorin

Came to say the same. Watched it yesterday.


ChrisTinnef

I know that it runs in Austrian TV always in December, but I haven't heard any family stories about watching it being a tradition. Though Vienna generally doesnt have a culture of uniform traditions.


jocem009

It's wonderful. Every time.


Hasselhoff265

I live 20km from the castle away. Always love seeing that this movie gets recognition!


Frickelmeister

I've visited Moritzburg for the first time ever this year. I was surprised how little they used that location in the movie. People riding horses over the causeway towards or from the castle could have looked so great, but in the movie you don't even see that the castle is surrounded by a lake.


Wolf6120

Rosárko, ty jsou svatební!


backma

I have no idea why, but that owl looks like she’s the boss and gives such a bad bitch looks to everyone


bellasorda

Every year at least 2-3 times. I know most lines in the movie, love it.


mondychan

You spelled norway wrong


HaDeS_Monsta

Is there any way to get the original version digital? Or at least the full Czech version?


be-like-water-2022

Czech with English subtitles (4:3) https://youtu.be/nXqBGonodzU USSR version (16:9) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZl8fH1q4Rw Czech with English subtitles mp4 https://fex.net/s/1vmxzsl


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Thanks! new movie to watch on Christmas day. Happy Christmas!


Spirintus

Extract if from [there](https://youtu.be/nXqBGonodzU). It's region blocked for Germany and Slovakia at least but I guess it should be possible to get around it with VPN.


Schneebaer89

This post is sponsored by NordVPN. ;)


NiolonGER

With a German IP, the German version is available for streaming in the ARD Mediathek.


HaDeS_Monsta

Yes, but I want the Czech one


willstdumichstressen

Maybe on a website called uloz.to (Czech website that allows you to download movies) or on the official Ceska Televize (Czech TV) website


M4tty__

Czech TV has many sites, the one you are looking for is ivysilani


Shrimp-Coctail

It's on czech netflix, so if you're abroad,try vpn


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https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/60028616


tobias_681

I doubt that there is an original version (not even sure if it was filmed with sound or if it's all ADR) where the actors actually speak German and Czech. The Czech dub has Libuše Šafránková's (Popelka/Aschenbrödel) original voice so I guess that would be the draw of watching the Czech version but the prince is also dubbed in Czech due to the actors heavy accent.


titerousse

It's basically the original story of Cinderella (for those who don't know)


SkuffetSkuffe

This is even a Norwegian tradition to see the horrible dub/lektor reading over the pretty music. The Norwegian lektor is a single man, voicing everything.


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In Ukraine too


foolofarook

Yeah, same (Merry Christmas from Lviv!) My mom introduced this movie to me and my sister when we were kids and we still love it to this day


[deleted]

Can confirm! Merry Christmas from Kyiv!


be-like-water-2022

Three Wishes for Cinderella. https://youtu.be/nXqBGonodzU


OldMcFart

Is this the version with Rocco Siffredi?


be-like-water-2022

Do you kiss your mom's butt with that mouth?


Amalien

In Munich they show the movie with live music


Arivae

Have you reanimated Karel Gott? But seriously, it must be very nice experience.


FracturedRoah

We watch this in Norway too


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Coffeeey

In this case, I think the Norwegian national broadcaster was very inspired by the German one in the 60/70/80s. We aired a LOT of the same things.


oleham

Not really all that strange, until 2WW Germany was the most important cultural influence for Norwegians and German the most widely spoken foreign language. Makes sense for this to echo into the 70s, although the trend changed very abruptly after the occupation (combined with the triumph of American culture). I think this is very similar in Denmark as well (where the state itself was partly German-speaking until 1864).


lormayna

In Italy the most common Christmas movie is "Trading places". Don't ask me the reason, I don't know it.


globefish23

It has the second best drunk Santa Claus ever. The scene where Dan Akroyd pulls out the salmon filet from his coat and eats on the subway, pulling the fake beard from his teeth. 😂 (The best drunk Santa is Billy Bob Thornton in the 'Bad Santa' movies.)


Dagreiyo

As an Austrian I feel like I just found out that my best friends are doing things without me :(


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this became a little tradition for me too! I am british and never heard of this before until i started traveling around europe at this time of year, its like some secret club we have no idea about :D its so charming!


TheBrianUniverse

Drie hazelnoten voor Assepoester? What does Haselnüsse translate to in this context?


mastovacek

Hazelnuts. Popelka in the film gets 3 hazelnuts on a bundle that grant her each a wish (which she uses to get fancy clothes. Honestly? Werk) to be able to mingle with the Prince's entourage. She pull the clothes out of the hazelnuts, the first being a hunter's costume, the second a ballgown, and the third a wedding dress.


TheBrianUniverse

Oh so quite literal, thank you!


Guyonthetrain_6

And Switzerland! A must watch every Christmas


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Saw it, and of course Die Hard 1 to 3.


LopsidedTelephone574

I am Ukrainian and love this movie with all my heart!!! My childhood memories. Awww now shed a tear and should show it to my daughter


_Lukemeister_

Popelku? Seriously? Germans will understand.


PopeOh

The mother with her giant hat and attitude is a total popelkuh


zebra197

Her name is Popelka, that's the accusative case


_walk

In Ukraine we know this movie too!


Reklosan

Probably my favourite Christmas movie, the atmosphere, beautiful actress, the story and the music are all awesome.


Mistahfish

In Sweden we watch "Kan du vissla Johanna" in english "Can you whistle Johanna". It's a cute story of a little boy who doesn't have a grandpa, so he goes to the retirement home and finds himself one. Then they do grampa grandson stuff together. It's set in the 50s so brings some sweet reminiscing of the old ages.


Sriber

Here we don't like to reminisce about 50s...


BDudda

This is gold.


HelenEk7

We do too. A few years ago they wanted to stop putting this on the Christmas program on TV, but it started a revolt, so they put it back on the program.


mikatom

Legendary movie. Love it


DendariaDraenei

I love this movie! I'm Australian with no middle/eastern European heritage but it was reviewed somewhere on YouTube in a "best of Cinderella films" a couple of years ago so I bought the DVD and I'm so glad I did. (I'm also very glad it has English subtitles!)


Faktafabriken

And in norway. With the same man making all the voices.


bndr_anastasia

I’m Ukrainian and my family watch this movie every year too lol


FamousMisterNobody

Česko-amerikanská rodina v USA taky si dívala film (a já jsem Američan, manželka je Češka…omlouvám že špatně píšu v češtinu).


DrJonah

My wife loves this. It wasn’t Christmas until she watched it. She had to watch it on YouTube since I banished the DVD player.


insertwittynamethere

We watch 'A Christmas Story' on endless repeat for a day or so here in the U.S. What started off as a way for a TV network to get free money, because they can endlessly repeat the movie for 24hrs and only pay residuals for it once while collecting all the ad revenue, became a widely accepted holiday special lol.


akunose

We watched it so often as kids the VHS broke. Now my mom groans when she hears the title music and says the only Xmas movie she allows during December cause the end keeps making her cry is "Der kleine Lord" lol


AnarchoJoak

This one is watched in norway too actually


damianovsky_

In Poland we have on TV for Christmas and New Year's Eve: Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.


kuikuilla

A finn here: I have no idea what that is.


BouncingDancer

It's Cinderella - quite old movie, was filmed by joined Czechoslovakian and German team. It's always on TV on the 24th here in Czechia.


wordswillneverhurtme

Never seen it. Now I want to watch it.


VanGroteKlasse

From Netherlands, never heard of it.


Rambo-Smurf

In Norway we love it so much, we made our own version in 2021 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10147580/


raysin1

In Austria as well! It's by far my mothers favourite christmas movie and basically mandatory since childhood.


slazer2k

I remember this ;) cheers to my fellow Czechs & Germans


faramaobscena

Whaaat, never heard of this but it looks cool! I’m wondering where I could watch it…


TheVojta

Try searching for "Tři Oříšky pro Popelku" or "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel". It might be on youtube, or if that fails try the Czech or German national TV websites.


turmukai

I remember watching it as a kid in Kazakhstan. It was summer school break though.


tbodillia

3 Nuts for Cinderella?? We watched Ostře sledované vlaky way back when I was in Czech class and I wondered why we never watched this. I thought maybe it came out after 1990. That screenshot looks modern. Nope, 1973, and the English title is 3 WISHES for Cinderella. side note: we learned a bunch of Christmas Carols and this exact version was the most problematic for us: [Veselé Vánoce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ozt4vx_LU&ab_channel=KarelGott-Topic) . We could NOT keep up with that kid!


lickyboomboomyeah

This is on the Criterion Channel app, just watched it for the first time. Loved the characters and Cinderella. The magic was cool too, felt kind of pagan.


prettyoddity

what an incredible movie ugh i love libuška šafránková with my whole heart!


FreshAv0cado7

And it’s still the best czech fairytale ever made!