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 sleet, 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 00:01:23,330 --> 00:01:24,570 Hey, hello! 25 00:01:25,330 --> 00:01:26,910 Where are they going? 26 00:01:27,530 --> 00:01:32,290 It's a decent hotel foyer, this. 27 00:01:32,290 --> 00:01:34,910 I just have to get up and save Christmas. 28 00:01:35,510 --> 00:01:37,170 Have fun. 29 00:01:37,790 --> 00:01:41,610 If it is any of all those separated 30 00:01:41,790 --> 00:01:44,610 nurses they are looking for, 31 00:01:44,810 --> 00:01:46,970 then it's on the third floor. 32 00:01:47,370 --> 00:01:50,470 Just go after the sound. 33 00:01:50,930 --> 00:01:52,470 Yes, thank you. 34 00:01:59,980 --> 00:02:01,540 This loneliness... 35 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,720 This emptiness... 36 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,699 This inner struggle for independence, 37 00:02:06,899 --> 00:02:10,160 and liberation in a bleak hotel room in the inner city. 38 00:02:10,900 --> 00:02:13,320 This impending doubt. 39 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:16,220 Could I have done it all differently? 40 00:02:16,780 --> 00:02:17,920 Where should I go? 41 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:19,560 I have to go out. 42 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:21,180 Out. 43 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,240 Out and have a shower. 44 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,240 "SAFE NUMBERS" 45 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,080 Now we'll see. 46 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,140 Cozy stuff. 47 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:50,100 And then we just need a little brown and crisp. 48 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:55,020 And then this comes. 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:58,460 Homesick. So what do you say? 50 00:02:58,460 --> 00:03:00,740 It's just sure every time. 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:05,620 Yes, and what else do we have? 52 00:03:05,980 --> 00:03:10,180 I am gonna wash that man right outta my hair 53 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,000 I am gonna wash that man right outta my hair. 54 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,420 Now it's just a matter of being steadfast and gritting your teeth. 55 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,200 Now it's out on the free market, 56 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,200 and out to compete. 57 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,920 Off with you. 58 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:29,700 hey ho, hey ho 59 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:31,080 to work you went... 60 00:03:37,550 --> 00:03:39,810 I surrender. 61 00:03:41,730 --> 00:03:43,990 No... I don't surrender. 62 00:03:46,950 --> 00:03:47,870 Yes... I surrender. 63 00:03:48,730 --> 00:03:50,590 I... I don't surrender. 64 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:52,910 Yes, I surrender. 65 00:03:54,870 --> 00:03:58,510 Oh, that man has nothing on his mind than... 66 00:03:59,990 --> 00:04:01,530 than food. 67 00:04:01,990 --> 00:04:03,530 He looks like his mother there. 68 00:04:04,450 --> 00:04:06,730 Hey, Mom, you old gossip-chart. 69 00:04:07,110 --> 00:04:09,530 How sweet of you to come unannounced all the way from Roskilde. 70 00:04:09,890 --> 00:04:12,150 There is, unfortunately, not a crumb in the house, then... 71 00:04:13,290 --> 00:04:14,550 But mother. 72 00:04:15,550 --> 00:04:17,730 Hello Flemming, you little skin. 73 00:04:18,209 --> 00:04:20,330 No, how pale and ravaged you look. 74 00:04:20,450 --> 00:04:22,330 You must look to get some more fat on your body. 75 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:25,690 It has simply been too much for you the last 20 years with that terraced house, and that wife. 76 00:04:30,170 --> 00:04:32,370 And then she suddenly moves to a hotel. 77 00:04:32,830 --> 00:04:35,910 Yes, that doesn't concern me. But couldn't she have found a hostel? 78 00:04:36,590 --> 00:04:40,150 If I gather, whether one can find anything in this messy shop. 79 00:04:41,930 --> 00:04:43,970 Listen, tell me something. Where do you think you're going? 80 00:04:44,530 --> 00:04:46,210 I have to go to work. 81 00:04:46,770 --> 00:04:50,210 Are you going to work in your condition? You must not be very clever. 82 00:04:50,390 --> 00:04:52,770 I just set up for you on the couch. 83 00:04:52,810 --> 00:04:54,450 I actually feel a little ill, too. 84 00:04:55,430 --> 00:04:57,110 Hope I didn't eat anything I couldn't handle. 85 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:59,830 Well, you guaranteed did that. There is so much of that nowadays. 86 00:04:59,930 --> 00:05:00,990 Or it's a virus. 87 00:05:01,250 --> 00:05:03,970 It's so disgusting, it's probably all that dirt. 88 00:05:04,270 --> 00:05:05,810 - Av! - By the way, I have moved the sofa. 89 00:05:06,050 --> 00:05:08,530 - Have you moved the sofa? - Yes. 90 00:05:08,830 --> 00:05:10,090 You need some western light. 91 00:05:10,130 --> 00:05:12,830 You must have west light. Otherwise you will never get well. 92 00:05:13,390 --> 00:05:15,410 And some milk and honey, and some raw egg yolks. 93 00:05:15,850 --> 00:05:18,190 And new curtains. Wait, until I take the worst. 94 00:05:18,630 --> 00:05:20,450 It look dangerous all over. 95 00:05:24,410 --> 00:05:25,690 Do you know, then... 96 00:05:25,730 --> 00:05:28,010 Then I think I'd rather go to work. 97 00:05:28,150 --> 00:05:29,910 Then you finally have to put on some warm clothes and come home early. 98 00:05:30,190 --> 00:05:32,770 And remember this one. This is your packed lunch. 99 00:05:33,190 --> 00:05:35,530 Thanks! 100 00:05:44,660 --> 00:05:46,980 Then we'll see to get it mowed out. 101 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,200 It's just such a small thing as making up. 102 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,000 I just get completely off, there. 103 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,160 I mean what's to do with all their flowers and promises and sweet words. 104 00:05:56,220 --> 00:05:58,160 It's going to get really ill over. 105 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,440 You simply have to be tough there. 106 00:06:01,660 --> 00:06:05,580 Because otherwise you have them lying at your feet for months afterwards. 107 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,480 Do you know what they become? They become romantic. 108 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:10,800 There is something sweet about him. 109 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,240 In his own helpless and slightly clumsy way. 110 00:06:16,420 --> 00:06:17,780 It's a number, you. 111 00:06:18,140 --> 00:06:20,840 He's just as big a sleazebag as all the others. 112 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,800 As soon as you walk in the door, he is lying in wait with his sour socks. 113 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:28,040 I'm just so worried about him now. 114 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:32,540 You should much rather take the chance that's right in front of you. 115 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:34,120 - Where? - There. 116 00:06:38,220 --> 00:06:40,200 Oh, Miss Berit. 117 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:42,940 Oh, I can see what they need. 118 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:44,900 I know what they've been through. 119 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:47,400 They have cast all chains, all bonds, 120 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:49,880 burned all bridges behind them. 121 00:06:49,900 --> 00:06:53,420 And now, now, Miss Berit, I will bestow it upon them. 122 00:06:53,420 --> 00:06:55,680 That all women sigh for. 123 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:57,500 But which no one dares ask for. 124 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:01,340 Miss Berit. 125 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:04,360 I will give them an evening shift. 126 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,140 Oh, Ditlev. 127 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:11,200 I hardly know what to say. 128 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,980 Nix. Nah-ah. Zero. 129 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:15,660 Forget it. 130 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:17,300 Not on any terms. Zero ways. 131 00:07:17,500 --> 00:07:19,100 No way. 132 00:07:21,460 --> 00:07:24,300 Why do we men have such a hard time saying no? 133 00:07:24,420 --> 00:07:26,020 Shall we never have us some lunch? 134 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,300 Are you fresh? 135 00:07:28,940 --> 00:07:31,520 I play out. Made by my wife. 136 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:32,560 So what do you say? 137 00:07:33,780 --> 00:07:35,400 Made by my mother. 138 00:07:35,540 --> 00:07:36,480 Then I say; pass. 139 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:39,740 After all, no one can keep up with that. 140 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,140 Well, okay. Still so... 141 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,540 Congrats with that, old boy. 142 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:53,900 Well, my God, Ruth. What's wrong? 143 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,160 Nothing. I just thought that… 144 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,160 "FOR FLEMMING." 145 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:10,400 Then I can just eat it myself. 146 00:08:11,620 --> 00:08:13,680 But little Ruth, I couldn't know that. 147 00:08:16,420 --> 00:08:18,460 Here you stand in line and 148 00:08:18,660 --> 00:08:21,940 awaiting for you to be single. 149 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,380 And then you just sit there and eat. 150 00:08:25,900 --> 00:08:29,780 Yes, that's what I call false assumptions. 151 00:08:31,299 --> 00:08:33,500 I was so looking forward to it. 152 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,200 Yes, it's me. 153 00:08:35,659 --> 00:08:36,620 You know what, Linda? 154 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,280 You have to get your act together in the future with the food, huh? 155 00:08:42,140 --> 00:08:45,320 Good Lord, there's nothing to be upset about. 156 00:08:45,620 --> 00:08:47,240 Look, I've already finished eating. 157 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,860 When it finally have to be that way, then I can easily... 158 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,540 I mean, when you had all that inconvenience anyway. 159 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:55,880 Oh, Flemming. 160 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:57,940 How sweet of you. 161 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:00,880 Good Lord, you do what you can. 162 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:03,760 With care, you can never have too much of it. 163 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,040 You surely need it, too. 164 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:12,960 It is so important to have something to stand against with. 165 00:09:13,140 --> 00:09:15,120 If your wife suddenly… 166 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,300 Yes, not to paint the hell on the wall. 167 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:23,040 But if she were to suddenly come home again. 168 00:09:23,620 --> 00:09:25,960 Good Lord, that time, that sorrow. 169 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:27,460 Scissors, quick. 170 00:09:28,300 --> 00:09:30,840 Oh, Ditlev. I'm so tired. 171 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,380 This is no pretty sight, this here. 172 00:09:35,940 --> 00:09:38,660 I don't like it either. Put the finger there. 173 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,400 More oxygen. 174 00:09:49,550 --> 00:09:51,230 - Complications? - Too little sleep. 175 00:09:54,290 --> 00:09:56,910 The scissors again. 176 00:09:58,470 --> 00:10:01,270 There is something 177 00:10:02,270 --> 00:10:04,670 completely wrong with this heart. 178 00:10:04,950 --> 00:10:06,650 Hold on right here. 179 00:10:07,450 --> 00:10:08,970 Oh, no. 180 00:10:09,490 --> 00:10:11,390 Now look there. 181 00:10:15,510 --> 00:10:16,990 I'm afraid we're going 182 00:10:17,990 --> 00:10:19,430 to have to throw it out. 183 00:10:22,690 --> 00:10:23,470 Oh, Ditlev. 184 00:10:23,930 --> 00:10:25,570 I can't do it anymore. 185 00:10:25,710 --> 00:10:27,870 Miss Berit, we must not give up now. 186 00:10:28,570 --> 00:10:30,910 That Christmas decoration has to be finished by tomorrow. 187 00:10:31,150 --> 00:10:32,930 It's about my good name and reputation. 188 00:10:33,830 --> 00:10:35,430 I'm trust you, Miss Berit. 189 00:10:35,690 --> 00:10:37,050 Braid, Miss Berit. 190 00:10:37,310 --> 00:10:39,730 - Braid. - No, Ditlev. 191 00:10:40,110 --> 00:10:42,250 - Do they say no? - Yes. 192 00:10:42,830 --> 00:10:44,870 - No. - You can't do that. 193 00:10:45,190 --> 00:10:47,950 It is an illegal strike. It is anarchy. 194 00:10:48,370 --> 00:10:51,410 Why continue this never-ending pursuit of 195 00:10:51,910 --> 00:10:54,950 career, power, status, and recognition? 196 00:10:55,730 --> 00:10:58,630 Well, I do it for the money. 197 00:10:59,010 --> 00:11:00,450 I can no longer fool myself. 198 00:11:01,150 --> 00:11:03,650 I want to go home. My family is suffering. 199 00:11:03,650 --> 00:11:06,010 Oh, Flemming. 200 00:11:07,110 --> 00:11:09,230 Here I am. 201 00:11:09,570 --> 00:11:11,430 Dry your eyes, Flemming. 202 00:11:11,510 --> 00:11:13,830 I have returned home. 203 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:17,170 Juhu. 204 00:11:17,830 --> 00:11:18,990 Flemming. 205 00:11:19,370 --> 00:11:21,530 Where are you? 206 00:11:21,850 --> 00:11:24,430 Well, are you wandering around restlessly 207 00:11:24,850 --> 00:11:26,630 tormented by guilt and shame. 208 00:11:29,910 --> 00:11:32,210 Why have you moved all the furniture around? 209 00:11:32,890 --> 00:11:34,290 Well... 210 00:11:34,770 --> 00:11:37,050 Flemming, I have decided to forgive you. 211 00:11:37,570 --> 00:11:38,950 Under certain conditions. 212 00:11:39,110 --> 00:11:40,990 Look here. I just made a little list. 213 00:11:41,610 --> 00:11:44,150 Now you have hopefully remembered to water those potted plants. 214 00:11:45,950 --> 00:11:49,830 - Mother-in-law! - Hey, Berit, you old slob. 215 00:11:50,050 --> 00:11:51,600 Aren't those some neat curtains? 216 00:11:51,650 --> 00:11:53,410 It was just at the last minute that I got my hands on these. 217 00:11:53,550 --> 00:11:55,610 They must be nibbled, you understand. You have to nibble them. 218 00:11:55,890 --> 00:11:56,990 Nib, nib. 219 00:11:57,010 --> 00:11:58,310 The rest of us have known that for 45 years. 220 00:11:58,310 --> 00:12:01,150 No, how you have grown, huh? 221 00:12:01,150 --> 00:12:03,130 It's probably all those French restaurants. 222 00:12:08,250 --> 00:12:12,070 Flemming, we must talk about this. 223 00:12:12,970 --> 00:12:14,870 What kind of thing? 224 00:12:15,050 --> 00:12:19,690 - The whole situation, it is unsustainable. - Completely. 225 00:12:20,790 --> 00:12:22,630 We must have clean lines. 226 00:12:23,050 --> 00:12:25,650 What has come between us? 227 00:12:25,650 --> 00:12:26,930 It's yellow peas. 228 00:12:27,670 --> 00:12:28,670 Here's the recipe. 229 00:12:28,730 --> 00:12:32,190 You'd better give him some winter nourishing instead of all that French nonsense. 230 00:12:32,270 --> 00:12:34,350 But of course I'm not going to interfere with that. 231 00:12:34,670 --> 00:12:36,530 I'm just saying, no gravy, no Christmas. 232 00:12:36,710 --> 00:12:38,450 Then I didn't say that too much. 233 00:12:38,590 --> 00:12:40,470 Is this how you want to live? 234 00:12:41,470 --> 00:12:43,650 What do you really have in mind, Flemming? 235 00:12:44,610 --> 00:12:46,090 What about Christmas? 236 00:12:46,270 --> 00:12:48,470 It falls at the same time as all the other years, so it 237 00:12:48,550 --> 00:12:49,510 shouldn't be that difficult to find out. 238 00:12:49,630 --> 00:12:52,010 And who lives where and why, you, yourself will have to mess with that. 239 00:12:52,130 --> 00:12:55,510 I don't care. I say nothing. I'm just stretching a shirt for my son. 240 00:12:55,990 --> 00:12:58,810 After all, he can't keep walking around looking like a vagabond. 241 00:12:58,950 --> 00:13:00,870 Oh, God, no. The food. 242 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:02,750 One brief second. 243 00:13:02,830 --> 00:13:04,710 I thought the two of us could talk, Flemming. 244 00:13:08,430 --> 00:13:11,650 - After all, we are adults. - We are? 245 00:13:14,190 --> 00:13:15,890 You don't need me anymore. 246 00:13:17,430 --> 00:13:22,350 I am unwanted, unwanted and outlaw in my own home. 247 00:13:24,350 --> 00:13:28,950 This terraced house is not big enough for two house mothers. 248 00:13:29,370 --> 00:13:31,370 Well, sweet Berit, who is the other one? 249 00:13:33,110 --> 00:13:34,910 I'm going! 250 00:13:36,610 --> 00:13:40,510 It was dangerously in and out, and right in the middle of the meal. 251 00:13:40,550 --> 00:13:44,690 Well, then there are cabbage rolls, and afterwards it's a lemon curd 252 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:47,910 - with coffee and sorbet. - No, you. 253 00:13:48,250 --> 00:13:50,230 Now it's probably going to be a real Christmas at home. 254 00:13:50,230 --> 00:13:54,170 We just get such a Christmas and family event. 255 00:13:54,350 --> 00:13:57,150 It simply will be a happy ending with angelic 256 00:13:57,250 --> 00:14:00,610 choirs and bells, and the whole shebang. 257 00:14:00,790 --> 00:14:02,530 I can promise you that. 258 00:14:02,970 --> 00:14:04,690 Oh, no. 259 00:14:16,340 --> 00:14:18,130 Hand me a puddle. 260 00:14:18,830 --> 00:14:21,770 - What kind of one should it be? - It doesn't matter. 261 00:14:21,910 --> 00:14:23,550 Any puddle. 262 00:14:24,490 --> 00:14:26,690 - Everything doesn't matter. - You don't need to say more. 263 00:14:27,030 --> 00:14:28,330 There is nothing more to say either. 264 00:14:28,430 --> 00:14:31,630 here one stands in ones worn-out sweater 265 00:14:32,030 --> 00:14:35,930 let down, discouraged, and cowed, and bitter 266 00:14:36,030 --> 00:14:40,930 what does fate hides for you now? 267 00:14:41,030 --> 00:14:43,930 du-du-bi-du bu-di-bu 268 00:14:44,030 --> 00:14:48,130 thrown out, cast aside, lost, and cold, 269 00:14:48,230 --> 00:14:51,930 there I am being dragged through the mud, 270 00:14:52,030 --> 00:14:55,930 since then, I wondered wailing 271 00:14:56,140 --> 00:14:59,410 How many napkins do you need? 272 00:14:59,750 --> 00:15:03,230 yes, I wanted 273 00:15:03,730 --> 00:15:07,350 a piece of the great happiness 274 00:15:08,250 --> 00:15:10,510 Well, what do you all say? 275 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:15,770 why? why? how hard is the last piece? 276 00:15:16,150 --> 00:15:19,570 exposed to frost in the nobler parts, 277 00:15:20,010 --> 00:15:21,440 I now ask awkwardly 278 00:15:21,510 --> 00:15:24,140 two with everything 279 00:15:24,650 --> 00:15:27,550 what kind of world is this? 280 00:15:28,430 --> 00:15:31,630 where is my bite of the pie? 281 00:15:32,010 --> 00:15:36,270 is it somewhere or is it gone? 282 00:15:36,490 --> 00:15:39,170 and that was the heroine's last knack. 283 00:15:46,490 --> 00:15:49,170 --- Subtitles by Essery. 2025. ---