1 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:06,880 it's Christmas, so what? 2 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:08,720 who is happy and why? 3 00:00:08,860 --> 00:00:12,000 does skiing make you happy? 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,640 Christmas is as good as it gets 5 00:00:14,740 --> 00:00:16,460 snow and sleat, and sip and slush 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,620 so we look forward till it is over 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,180 everything goes down the hill at breakneck speed 8 00:00:24,380 --> 00:00:28,320 and soon the Christmas pixie is starting to die out, so march 9 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:30,200 it's pure therapy 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,140 it's mass hysteria 11 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,660 we are so sad to mention it, but... 12 00:00:36,140 --> 00:00:39,280 now it's Christmas in the treadmill again 13 00:00:40,260 --> 00:00:42,140 it's Christmas, X-M-A-S 14 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:43,940 God, how commercial it is 15 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,100 soon, the air will be filled with fraud and trickery 16 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:51,900 Christmas is, as you know, always is an inconvenience 17 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:55,280 because it sets the most extreme demands, 18 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,100 but in a time when no one really knows what they want 19 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,580 it is the last straw we can cling to 20 00:01:03,739 --> 00:01:07,480 has it first gotten through your joyous child-like mind, 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,920 you'll be mindlessly joyously sick, 22 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:14,400 then it's Christmas in the treadmill yet again. 23 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:18,400 CHRISTMAS IN THE OLD THREADMILL. 24 00:01:21,270 --> 00:01:22,330 Yoohoo! 25 00:01:22,470 --> 00:01:24,290 Flemming, you have to get up now! 26 00:01:26,050 --> 00:01:27,990 It's Monday. 27 00:01:28,150 --> 00:01:30,490 The responsibilities call. We're behind schedule. 28 00:01:31,130 --> 00:01:34,690 There is no sliced meat. And it is pitch dark outside. 29 00:01:34,910 --> 00:01:36,510 The laundry piles up. 30 00:01:36,650 --> 00:01:39,090 And I can also understand if you are 31 00:01:39,090 --> 00:01:42,410 down in the basement, in a dark, big hole. 32 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:45,390 But Flemming, come on up! 33 00:01:46,010 --> 00:01:46,970 Yes, yes, yes. 34 00:01:47,790 --> 00:01:48,750 Oh, Berit. 35 00:01:49,270 --> 00:01:50,570 What a night. 36 00:01:50,830 --> 00:01:53,630 When we homeowners have been down in the mud and come back up, 37 00:01:53,730 --> 00:01:56,050 then we see everything in a completely different light. 38 00:01:57,210 --> 00:01:59,150 Hurry a little, honey. 39 00:01:59,770 --> 00:02:01,050 We should get going. 40 00:02:01,410 --> 00:02:03,050 No, Berit. 41 00:02:04,090 --> 00:02:08,270 If our Lord has decided that we humans should dig 42 00:02:08,270 --> 00:02:09,910 out for a belated hot tub in the 43 00:02:10,010 --> 00:02:12,790 virtual cellar, then he must not demand that we also go to work. 44 00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:14,370 That would be a double confetti. 45 00:02:14,730 --> 00:02:17,030 Yeah, but Flemming, we'll also have to go out and save together for... 46 00:02:17,190 --> 00:02:18,190 For what? 47 00:02:18,210 --> 00:02:20,310 Why do the two of us have to work ourselves half into the grave 48 00:02:20,310 --> 00:02:22,290 for wretched marble when we could just as easily get off 49 00:02:22,390 --> 00:02:24,470 the race, and stay at home and live in the present? 50 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:26,230 Because... 51 00:02:26,610 --> 00:02:28,090 Flemming... 52 00:02:29,510 --> 00:02:32,750 I don't really know how to say this, but... 53 00:02:33,630 --> 00:02:35,350 There will come a day after this. 54 00:02:35,410 --> 00:02:36,890 There will? 55 00:02:36,970 --> 00:02:38,090 What kind of day is that? 56 00:02:38,650 --> 00:02:40,950 - Is it... - Yes, Flemming. 57 00:02:41,070 --> 00:02:43,690 It's tomorrow. 58 00:02:44,030 --> 00:02:45,330 It's the devil's birthday. 59 00:02:45,450 --> 00:02:47,890 Is it the devil's birthday? 60 00:02:48,110 --> 00:02:50,510 Oh no, Berit. Why can't we just send cancellations? 61 00:02:50,730 --> 00:02:51,930 It will be so expensive. 62 00:02:51,990 --> 00:02:53,050 Oh my God, Flemming. 63 00:02:53,130 --> 00:02:56,110 There is also something festive about paying mortgage, isn't there? 64 00:02:56,270 --> 00:02:57,970 Try to see it as a challenge. 65 00:02:58,250 --> 00:03:00,370 A chance to show what you're up to. 66 00:03:00,430 --> 00:03:01,790 To give something, right? 67 00:03:01,890 --> 00:03:02,990 Work a little faster. 68 00:03:03,110 --> 00:03:04,610 Get some salary raise, right? 69 00:03:04,830 --> 00:03:07,090 Oh no, Berit. What is the point? 70 00:03:07,730 --> 00:03:09,210 Where is the purpose? 71 00:03:09,310 --> 00:03:11,050 Where is the carrot? 72 00:03:11,890 --> 00:03:13,690 The motivation and... 73 00:03:14,190 --> 00:03:16,690 The joy of working... The professional pride. 74 00:03:17,090 --> 00:03:18,690 And the personal satisfaction? 75 00:03:19,390 --> 00:03:22,170 Where is everything you need as a registered accountant? 76 00:03:22,270 --> 00:03:24,730 Flemming, you can just take your calendar gift. 77 00:03:25,210 --> 00:03:27,090 It's a stamp. 78 00:03:30,570 --> 00:03:33,630 Berit! It's not just a stamp. 79 00:03:33,770 --> 00:03:35,390 It's a blue stamp. 80 00:03:35,850 --> 00:03:37,170 I have always dreamed of getting that. 81 00:03:39,510 --> 00:03:41,230 God, Flemming. What do you look like though? 82 00:03:41,570 --> 00:03:42,930 - You are completely... - Berit! 83 00:03:43,110 --> 00:03:45,530 You can have ambitions, even if you have dirt in your head. 84 00:03:45,810 --> 00:03:48,350 Out there, the entire private business life is waiting for me. 85 00:03:48,350 --> 00:03:50,690 It's a battleground. 86 00:03:53,730 --> 00:03:55,970 No one knows when I will return. 87 00:03:56,410 --> 00:03:58,410 Isn't it usually around five thirty? 88 00:03:59,130 --> 00:04:02,610 Berit! If I fall, it will be with honor. 89 00:04:05,930 --> 00:04:07,110 Flemming! 90 00:04:07,250 --> 00:04:09,710 We also need to get that driveway graveled. 91 00:04:10,990 --> 00:04:12,950 I don't even know what to do. 92 00:04:14,370 --> 00:04:16,110 After all, we've tried everything. 93 00:04:17,110 --> 00:04:19,350 But we can't get it to work at all. 94 00:04:19,490 --> 00:04:21,450 So Berit, you must be able to talk about it. 95 00:04:21,650 --> 00:04:24,610 You simply have to have it out like a drain. It has to come out. 96 00:04:26,230 --> 00:04:28,510 What do you want me to do? 97 00:04:29,730 --> 00:04:31,610 So, I can give you the number for a guy. 98 00:04:31,870 --> 00:04:33,650 He is just all time. 99 00:04:34,370 --> 00:04:36,610 He is unstoppable once he gets going. 100 00:04:39,090 --> 00:04:42,590 Come now. It is an honest matter, when Flemming can't figure it out. 101 00:04:43,850 --> 00:04:45,510 I don't know him at all. 102 00:04:45,670 --> 00:04:47,810 He doesn't care about that at all. 103 00:04:48,230 --> 00:04:51,510 And then he's black, so he is in on the worst. 104 00:04:53,230 --> 00:04:55,510 "PLUMBER- SPECIALITY IN JACUZZI" 105 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:58,990 The journal. 106 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,720 The journal, quick, where do we have it? 107 00:05:00,820 --> 00:05:02,960 There. Here it is. "THE FAMILY JOURNAL." 108 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,720 Do you want to see? 109 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,120 Here it is. 110 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:13,240 Off-white cashmere, size 52, on needle number 4, with twists here and there. 111 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,820 V-neckline, ruffle is closer. 112 00:05:16,220 --> 00:05:18,400 And straight edge, and then just straight out of the country road. 113 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:20,040 Please let it go a little quickly. 114 00:05:20,420 --> 00:05:22,500 It's cold at the top. 115 00:05:32,910 --> 00:05:35,050 Flemming, how beautiful it is. 116 00:05:35,650 --> 00:05:39,070 I don't understand how you can hit the right spots. 117 00:05:39,270 --> 00:05:43,230 It is simply a matter of talent, willpower, concentration, 118 00:05:43,690 --> 00:05:47,330 discipline, overview, nerves of steel, and a good eye for the ball. 119 00:05:47,330 --> 00:05:49,770 Yes, that's the kind of good stuff you learn in accounting school. 120 00:05:49,890 --> 00:05:51,110 Right on and hard! 121 00:05:52,030 --> 00:05:54,270 Tell me... What is this thing? 122 00:05:56,090 --> 00:06:00,890 It's their wife's Christmas present, which I haven't ordered yet. 123 00:06:01,210 --> 00:06:05,150 I know we already talked about that French underwear. 124 00:06:05,430 --> 00:06:08,910 Um, Thursday the 6th. at half past twelve, just before the phone rang, 125 00:06:09,230 --> 00:06:11,570 setting off an avalanche of events. 126 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:14,310 If consequences should turn out to be fateful about a... 127 00:06:14,310 --> 00:06:15,770 Yes, thank you, little Miss Ruth. 128 00:06:15,870 --> 00:06:17,990 Their summaries may be kept for themselves. 129 00:06:18,430 --> 00:06:20,230 What is this? 130 00:06:21,810 --> 00:06:23,310 Is it acrylic? 131 00:06:23,410 --> 00:06:25,770 No, it's loitering. Can't you see it yourself? 132 00:06:26,350 --> 00:06:27,990 Where is my explanation? 133 00:06:28,030 --> 00:06:30,750 I don't know what size she wears. 134 00:06:31,070 --> 00:06:32,110 Well, who else would know? 135 00:06:32,490 --> 00:06:34,930 What do you think a secretary is for? What? 136 00:06:35,010 --> 00:06:36,690 Do you really have to take care of everything yourself? 137 00:06:36,770 --> 00:06:38,710 The next thing will be that I have to meet with the public sector. 138 00:06:38,870 --> 00:06:39,910 Yes. 139 00:06:39,930 --> 00:06:42,470 Now listen here. 14.04.46 140 00:06:42,970 --> 00:06:47,610 and 18.83. Do they realize how much they owe their fatherland. 141 00:06:47,950 --> 00:06:50,550 It's not just the 1,200 crowns for those daycare homes. 142 00:06:50,670 --> 00:06:52,590 That's the whole mentality. 143 00:06:56,270 --> 00:07:01,000 What kind of desert filled pursuit of status 144 00:07:01,150 --> 00:07:03,430 and power and French underwear is this? 145 00:07:05,590 --> 00:07:07,530 - Where? - Down there. 146 00:07:08,630 --> 00:07:11,670 And when do they think I last got new underwear? 147 00:07:12,770 --> 00:07:15,670 Here you go and try to run a kind of society. 148 00:07:15,930 --> 00:07:17,230 So get a grip, man. 149 00:07:17,470 --> 00:07:18,950 Take a share of responsibility. 150 00:07:19,050 --> 00:07:21,070 It's also their Great Belt Bridge 151 00:07:21,170 --> 00:07:23,370 and get rid of yourself, and get those nails to work. 152 00:07:23,470 --> 00:07:24,830 What do you want me to do? 153 00:07:24,930 --> 00:07:27,050 - They just have to do some overtime. - Overtime? 154 00:07:27,150 --> 00:07:27,950 Where am I going to get that from? 155 00:07:32,230 --> 00:07:34,690 Hi Berit, your old service hurricane. 156 00:07:35,070 --> 00:07:37,130 How's it going out in the backcountry, you? 157 00:07:37,310 --> 00:07:40,090 You'd better make plenty, because I've been given such a responsibility 158 00:07:40,190 --> 00:07:42,890 where I have to be a consultant and stay up all night. 159 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:46,470 But Berit, what does that represent? 160 00:07:46,730 --> 00:07:48,390 Can you never get enough potholders? 161 00:07:48,450 --> 00:07:50,630 Flemming, I might as well be honest. 162 00:07:50,990 --> 00:07:53,310 This is no potholder. 163 00:07:53,790 --> 00:07:55,770 It's a mission. A calling. 164 00:07:55,970 --> 00:08:00,630 The first spade starts on a new life and an exciting career. 165 00:08:00,790 --> 00:08:02,850 Hah! It won't work, Greenberg. 166 00:08:03,230 --> 00:08:07,110 People are damn inventive. Driving allowance, God forbid. 167 00:08:07,250 --> 00:08:09,290 There is no such thing at all. "TAXATION." 168 00:08:09,410 --> 00:08:11,490 Well, that was strange. 169 00:08:12,230 --> 00:08:14,770 There is also something called idealism. 170 00:08:15,090 --> 00:08:16,110 Is there? 171 00:08:16,510 --> 00:08:18,130 Where was that supposed to be? 172 00:08:18,430 --> 00:08:20,970 Around the corner. Down by the hot dog cart. 173 00:08:21,470 --> 00:08:23,510 Now I have to tell you something. 174 00:08:23,730 --> 00:08:26,950 My act, it's sending greetings from the world's greatest man. 175 00:08:29,670 --> 00:08:30,850 And then? 176 00:08:30,930 --> 00:08:32,009 Where did I get to? 177 00:08:32,169 --> 00:08:36,090 They came to the great mogul and where the giant cabbage is growing. 178 00:08:36,370 --> 00:08:40,290 Well yes. And then suddenly, Christmas comes on top. 179 00:08:40,450 --> 00:08:42,970 And these are legitimately unfair working conditions. 180 00:08:43,410 --> 00:08:44,950 But I do it. 181 00:08:45,190 --> 00:08:48,470 I go out there and find some random terraced house, 182 00:08:49,230 --> 00:08:51,970 with some random, unhappy married couple. 183 00:08:52,590 --> 00:08:55,910 And then I have to make sure to spread such an atmosphere. 184 00:08:56,950 --> 00:08:59,430 If that is to be my farewell performance. 185 00:09:06,310 --> 00:09:08,850 No! I won't do it. 186 00:09:09,250 --> 00:09:10,630 I can't. 187 00:09:10,710 --> 00:09:12,650 I will no longer add stamp to this 188 00:09:12,850 --> 00:09:15,830 swamp of greed and personal deductions. 189 00:09:16,010 --> 00:09:19,330 It is morally reprehensible. It is artistically indefensible. 190 00:09:19,650 --> 00:09:21,330 I'm leaving. 191 00:09:24,310 --> 00:09:26,030 Oh, Flemming. 192 00:09:26,330 --> 00:09:28,650 How proud I am of you. 193 00:09:28,910 --> 00:09:31,110 - Do you really want to say that you... - Yes, Berit. 194 00:09:31,770 --> 00:09:33,330 It can wait until tomorrow. 195 00:09:33,450 --> 00:09:35,390 It doesn't go anywhere. 196 00:09:35,690 --> 00:09:37,910 My, Flemming. 197 00:09:38,250 --> 00:09:40,310 Sometimes, when I see you sitting and looking at 198 00:09:40,410 --> 00:09:43,350 French underwear in the mail order catalog, it's as if 199 00:09:43,450 --> 00:09:46,530 the two of us don't have the same goal in life at all. 200 00:09:46,530 --> 00:09:48,470 Berit, it's not just here in life. 201 00:09:48,650 --> 00:09:51,370 It is both like that and up here. 202 00:09:51,410 --> 00:09:54,110 Flemming, suddenly it's as if 203 00:09:54,310 --> 00:09:56,270 something new and exciting is on the way. 204 00:09:56,870 --> 00:10:00,690 Yes, up the drainage pipe, across the roof, and… 205 00:10:00,690 --> 00:10:04,230 Then, sit still, Berit. 206 00:10:04,310 --> 00:10:07,290 Well, I have to have these numbers ready for morning, 207 00:10:07,570 --> 00:10:08,410 ... for Ruth. 208 00:10:08,670 --> 00:10:11,810 Down through the chimney and out through the fireplace. 209 00:10:12,990 --> 00:10:14,690 Flemming! I'm scared! 210 00:10:14,730 --> 00:10:16,930 Well, then calm down, Berit, 211 00:10:17,030 --> 00:10:18,430 when the accident is finally out, then... 212 00:10:18,890 --> 00:10:19,990 Then what? 213 00:10:20,050 --> 00:10:22,210 The worst that can happen is that it will be Christmas. 214 00:10:25,050 --> 00:10:30,210 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---