1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,680 A long, long time ago... 2 00:00:19,940 --> 00:00:23,480 As long as no one remembers... 3 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,160 ... a king lived here in the castle. 4 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:30,080 A real adventure king. 5 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:34,680 And his daughter, the lovely Princess Miamaja. 6 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,280 Although it was a real fairytale king, - 7 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,120 - they weren't fabulously rich. 8 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:43,760 And it was the fault of the war. 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,560 They had to pay the king's weight in gold to get peace. 10 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,000 Therefore, the king had to go on a diet. 11 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,800 But the only thing he lost was his good mood. 12 00:00:57,160 --> 00:00:59,800 Today a fancy visit arrived. 13 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:35,400 It is from Montania from the claw at the top. 14 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,520 Montania's coat of arms sits on the door. 15 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:56,160 What does the strange man want? 16 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,160 Nothing comfortable, I'm afraid. It's not until Christmas, they need their gold. 17 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,720 Christmas falls early this year. 18 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,840 - What is standing for, what's he waiting for? - The red runway, of course. 19 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,240 Red runway to the messenger! 20 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,200 - Red runway to the messenger! - Red runway to the messenger! 21 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,440 Red runway... 22 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,600 True, dear brother. We must receive him with dignity, so that he does not believe anything wrong. 23 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:27,200 So he doesn't discover anything wrong, you mean. 24 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,480 Not those slippers, little brother. How many times, do I have to tell you. 25 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,240 Brother Mirko has always carried himself in style. 26 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:43,040 - Is that him? - No, it's just a human. 27 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,480 Brother Mirko is only half as big but just as well built. 28 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:52,600 He looks like the picture, he has the last few hundred years. 29 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:59,600 Look! Watch, little Magnum. 30 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:02,600 - Sprit and burst! - Buttocks and spark! 31 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,640 - Is it real? - That doesn't look like 200 years. 32 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,320 Something terrible must have happened to brother Mirko. 33 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:17,720 Get him while I put water on for the pixie beer. 34 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,880 (Yelling in Montanian.) 35 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,480 (COMPLAIN in Montanian.) 36 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:12,160 DA YOU DA DUDA...FNOK! 37 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,160 From Montania? 38 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,960 - Is that true? - No, envoy. 39 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Nonsense! 40 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:27,120 - His Majesty has said so himself. - Yes, then it is something else. 41 00:04:28,280 --> 00:04:33,920 It must be Wiessenwass. What is he doing here? After all, we have a style-tithe agreement. 42 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:39,440 We must investigate what the envoy has in the bag. 43 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,800 You've changed a little... if you don't mind me saying. 44 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,240 Why would anything bother me... 45 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,760 After all, you have no part in the fact that it has gone the way it has. 46 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:58,760 - Has it really? - Here, dear brother-in-law. 47 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,680 Here you have a cup of warm pixie beer. 48 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,680 Will do you good, after that long trip with neither wet or dry. 49 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,680 Thank you, dear sister-in-law. It did good. 50 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:25,240 You look much more like Uncle Mirko in the picture than in reality. 51 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:30,160 - Fimpe, not so sassy. - The child is right. 52 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,600 You don't look like yourself either, little Fimpe. 53 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:41,920 How you are blown up in the sky... to all sides. I almost can't recognize you. 54 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:47,160 However, it has not been more than 77 Christmases since I last saw you. 55 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:50,240 That time has gone well, like the snow that fell last year. 56 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,880 - That's a true word. - Evil times slowly screams. 57 00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,080 But tell me, brother Mirko. How are things at home? 58 00:06:00,090 --> 00:06:02,080 It's fully isn't at all anymore. 59 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,040 Maybe I'm the last pixie in Montania. 60 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,880 And now I'm not there anymore either. 61 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:16,800 When you travel home again, are you there again? 62 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,320 I'm not going back. 63 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:28,080 - I have been banned. - Forbidden? By whom? 64 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,440 His Excellency, the reich council of Montania. 65 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,440 Baron von Weissenwass. 66 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:10,920 I convey my lord's deep gratitude - 67 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,840 - on certificates of the agreement concluded between our countries - 68 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:19,280 - on the foundation of Your Majesty's weight in gold. 69 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,080 Thanks yourself. 70 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:27,920 May I add to that, my privately joy at seeing your majesty in good fill. 71 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,560 Thank you all the same. My luck is mostly… 72 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:36,200 Fortunately, my fill is of a temporary nature. 73 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:44,520 My lord begs you not to neglect this little present. 74 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,000 A foretaste of the brotherly-loving feelings that from now on... 75 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,080 ... or rather, from Christmas of... shall rise from our two countries. 76 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:09,600 Une surprise calorie de la volumineuse! 77 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,560 Mild meringue! 78 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,040 - No! Never. - Excuse me, madam? 79 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,880 His majesty cannot... 80 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,800 ... not accept. It's all too much. 81 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,800 In a little while there will be sweet porridge. After such a long journey. 82 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:33,480 You are nothing but beard and legs. 83 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,400 No, thank you, dear sister-in-law. 84 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:40,040 I'm quite full... almost full. 85 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,720 Dear Brother. How to ban pixies? I don't understand it. 86 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:48,680 It is otherwise quite simple. 87 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:53,800 If nobody believes in pixies, then we don't exist. 88 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:58,760 Don't need to be all. If just one person believes in us, - 89 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,960 then we exist. 90 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:07,120 But the baron with whom I rode with has forbidden everyone to believe in pixies. 91 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:12,600 - A real pixie hater? - Of the worst kind. 92 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,680 If he doesn't believe in pixies himself, others mustn't either. 93 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:21,600 That's why I'm actually not here at all. 94 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:26,600 No, but whether you here, you must taste my porridge anyway, brother-in-law. 95 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:32,880 - It puts a piece on the side legs. - So only a small spoonful. 96 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,880 To not carry the Christmas out. 97 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,560 it's surely, it's true, december 98 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,280 it is the day before the day, before the day you know 99 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:06,000 and anyone who wants to add a damper 100 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,280 on our pleasure, we will notify him immediately 101 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,360 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 102 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:16,340 it's surely, it's soon, 103 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:19,000 it's Christmas. 104 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,040 Even extremely edible, High Majesty. 105 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,600 Here... 106 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,080 Hmm, hm! 107 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,040 What does the gracious princess have to command? 108 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,020 Princess? I am no more a princess than you are. 109 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,320 That wasn't much. I'm not a princess, not at all. 110 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,900 - You're a bird catcher, aren't you? 111 00:12:34,060 --> 00:12:36,280 You must go up to the princess's house. 112 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,760 - Has the bird flown? It needs to be captured? - It doesn't fly anywhere. 113 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:42,960 Contrary. It splashes off its stick for a good word. 114 00:12:43,020 --> 00:12:45,760 Eating, it won't do no matter what we feed it. 115 00:12:45,820 --> 00:12:49,080 If it dies, the princess cries her eyes out. 116 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:52,760 A great shame... so pretty they are. 117 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,320 Don't lecture about the princess's eyes. 118 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,960 You better hurry to her chamber. And pray you can cure it. Adios, bird catcher. 119 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,160 Gregor... 120 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,760 Come on, Gregor. 121 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,520 He has been like this for several weeks. 122 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:30,440 He doesn't say a word. 123 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,500 It is a difficult case, I'm afraid. 124 00:13:35,860 --> 00:13:38,880 - But you can cure him? - Maybe. 125 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,480 But I must ask the gracious princesses for a matter. 126 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:49,320 - Hear him. The bird catcher is the beak. - So is the bird, so maybe we ought to hear him sing. 127 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:51,840 What do you demand from the Princess and her chamberlain? 128 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:54,760 That I can be alone with the bird for a moment. 129 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,760 Come Sibbe, we will step away for a little. 130 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,920 You assure me, he will not suffer. Otherwise, you will get unthanks. 131 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:26,640 Come on, Gregor. There is feed in the manger. 132 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,920 Gregor, if you do not eat immediately, - 133 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:40,160 - then I'll pluck your feathers and eat you like Morten's goose! Understand? 134 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:52,520 Beep, beep... 135 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:57,000 He eats! It is a miracle. 136 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:02,080 - What have you done to him? - I talked to his better self. 137 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,000 He understood me immediately. 138 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,960 But how long it will last, I don't know. 139 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,960 Come every day. It's my favorite bird. 140 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,280 As the princess commands. 141 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,480 You are also my favorite bird. 142 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:55,240 And that peephole there is for the guest suite. 143 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,240 What are you seeing, brother Mirko? 144 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:03,600 - It's him! - Who? 145 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:07,640 Baron Wiessenwass. 146 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,280 He lies in there and sleeps. 147 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,640 As long as you sleep, you do not sin, as the new word says. 148 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,400 Wiessenwass is terrible even when he sleeps. 149 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,060 Is he the one who banned the mushies...'banned the pixies'? 150 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,560 Can I see too, Father Magnum? Shall we give him a little lesson? 151 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:29,280 I think we should teach him a big lesson. 152 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,840 - Are you very afraid of him? - Afraid? I? 153 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:44,520 Should chief elf Mirko be afraid of an ordinary person? 154 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,440 What are you doing down there? Come... come, then you'll see. 155 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,800 Ha, ha... 156 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,560 I think he's too hot in that big duvet. 157 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,160 Teasing is yummely-yum. 158 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,280 Uh... 159 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,320 Help... 160 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:07,960 HELP! 161 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:31,240 when you are in elves learning you have to use your pixie bulb 162 00:19:31,460 --> 00:19:33,240 if a pixie, one wants to be 163 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,960 you have to be an animal-friend friend with mice and ants, 164 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,280 first and foremost you have to be a prankster 165 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,840 with real mischief mindset 166 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,920 when teasing, it is important to start a little cautiously 167 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,240 so you learn to tease right 168 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,200 you can start by making clocks stop 169 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,280 it's easy to learn for a prankster 170 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:59,000 with real mischief mindset 171 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:04,280 the king's beer in the king's barrel, you can slowly start to dilute 172 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,360 with a cupful of Christmas snow, the beer becomes a thin cup of tea 173 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,440 only a real prankster brews like that 174 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:15,360 with real mischief mindset 175 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,640 you don't need to move to open all doors 176 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:22,320 just take some fishing line 177 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:25,640 with a line and a hook all coffin layers rattle 178 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:28,680 that's just the thing for a prankster 179 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,480 with real mischief mindset 180 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,880 all good pranksters know when the time is right 181 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:38,560 to stop and disappear 182 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:42,160 one must not be seen, it has still never happened 183 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,400 you have to be a completely invisible prankster 184 00:20:45,560 --> 00:20:48,520 with real mischief mindset. 185 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,600 it's surely, it's true, december 186 00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:59,360 the most beautiful month in the land of the pixies 187 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,920 there are people who the cold is bad for 188 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,840 but for pixies, the ice is the pure water 189 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:10,680 and the days fly away like a bird 190 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,600 It's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas 191 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,960 it's surely, it's true, december 192 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:23,720 the busiest month for pixies in particular 193 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,400 because then we flutter around and fight 194 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,440 every step towards acidity and crooked toes 195 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,640 we say it openly, although always in secret 196 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,600 It's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas 197 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,920 it's surely, it's true, december 198 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,720 it's the day before the day before the day you know 199 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,280 and anyone who wants to add a damper 200 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,360 to our pleasure, we will notify him immediately 201 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:00,480 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 202 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,760 it's surely, it's soon, 203 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,800 it's Christmas. 204 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,800 --- Subtitles by Essery. ---