1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,400 A long, long time ago... 2 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,400 As long as no one remembers... 3 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,560 ... a king lived here in the castle. 4 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:29,800 And his daughter, the lovely Princess Miamaja. 5 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,560 Although it was a fairy king, they were not fairy rich. 6 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:39,840 The neighboring country Montania offered Christmas peace, - 7 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:44,080 - if Miamaja would betroth their prince. 8 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,760 But Miamaja got so angry about that that she locked herself in - 9 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,280 - and refused to come out again... ever. 10 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:58,400 There she sat with her chambermaid, who was so hungry. 11 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,400 And the pixies thought it was sad for them. 12 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:23,840 Fimpe, what are you doing with sleep in your eyes? 13 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,280 Baker, mother Trisse. 14 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,800 What is this nonsense from morning? 15 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:32,880 - I'm baking, Father Magnum. - Baking? 16 00:01:32,960 --> 00:01:37,880 - Exactly, Uncle Mirko. I'm baking. - But we have no flour? 17 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:42,040 - The flour has run out. - It doesn't look like that. 18 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,800 Fimpe, it's one thing to tease. 19 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,920 Something else is 'snatching'. 20 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,040 - I didn't steal. There was a hole in the bag. - And who made that hole? 21 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,880 - Who does the bag belong to? - The princess. 22 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:03,080 - The princess, yes. In a way... - That sweet girl. 23 00:02:03,140 --> 00:02:06,000 - Then I didn't steal because the cake I am baking is for the princess. 24 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:09,000 - To the princess? 25 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:12,040 I bake for the princess from the princess's own flour. 26 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:16,440 It's as sorrow how they mistreat the sweet little one without wet or dry. 27 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:21,560 - The princess's own flour! - That changes the case. 28 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,160 How to make an 'M'? 29 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,320 the good, old Christmas time is not just garnet-time 30 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:34,120 and candy and sugar balls 31 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,000 no, you want to celebrate Christmas like in the good old days 32 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,600 then it belongs with a real Christmas cake 33 00:02:42,980 --> 00:02:45,400 take some eggs and butter, sugar and cinnamon 34 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,960 stir it together with a little flour 35 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:51,480 how to get dough almost like a game 36 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:54,400 it's fun to bake 37 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,420 if it is a cake man you think of baking 38 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:01,720 you can just shape the dough 39 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,560 a small bun at the top and a big one that is his stomach 40 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,920 his arms and his legs are also easy to make 41 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,120 now he is put in the hot oven 42 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,840 and when he is baked, he looks like a clown 43 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,320 then give him a go with some white icing 44 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,080 it's always fun to bake 45 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,680 now he has to wear a hat, for that we can use 46 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,600 blue violets put in sugar 47 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,400 his nose is a mulberry and his eyes are raisins 48 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:38,300 his mouth an orange and finally two ear-figs 49 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:41,080 so now he's ready, deliciously warm and crispy 50 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,880 look, he looks like dad on the nose that's red 51 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:47,400 and now it's time to take a bite 52 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:54,040 it's fun to bake, but most fun is to taste. 53 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,920 Good morning, little Miamaja. It's your dear father. 54 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,720 Good morning, 'Dear Father'. 55 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,400 - Did you sleep well, my girl? - I haven't closed an eye. 56 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,720 That's good. I have that too... So the case looks completely different? 57 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,000 - Right? - No! 58 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,360 Come down and get breakfast. 59 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:30,800 Then we talk calmly about the future. Right, my girl? 60 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,880 - No, thanks. I'm not hungry. - I am. 61 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:38,560 Miamaja. You can't sit in there without wet or dry? 62 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,400 - You can bring me Gregor up here. - What kind of dish is that? 63 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:49,600 - Gregor is my bird. - Bird for breakfast? 64 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:52,040 No Papa, for company. 65 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,440 You'd rather talk to a parrot than your father? 66 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,080 How do I get in? The door is locked. 67 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:06,240 You could turn the key around, little Dad. 68 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:12,480 But why have you locked yourself in from the outside? 69 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:17,120 You are now sweet and loving, little daddy. 70 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:22,360 Go get me Gregor up here... and some breakfast food. 71 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:29,160 I will try, my girl, but your aunt is against it. 72 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:37,920 Look, what is that? 73 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:47,360 - Hold the basket. - No, I'd rather die. 74 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:53,520 Hen mom, it's just a basket! Have you never received a 'basket' before? 75 00:05:57,420 --> 00:05:59,500 'M'? 76 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:05,000 - 'M' for Miamaja. Wonder where that is from? 77 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:11,880 - It smells fresh baked. - By whom? 78 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,040 That's too childish a script for a hunter, isn't it? 79 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:21,480 - Hunter? I will give you hunter! - No, Princess. 80 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:35,800 - It's me again, Miamaja. I'm entering. - No, thanks. Just put it out there. 81 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,080 We need to talk, we have your bird with us. Now I'm coming... 82 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:44,480 - No, dad. I'm not dressed. - If so? 83 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:49,080 Sibbe isn't either, she's ravishingly naked. 84 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:55,720 - We can't leave the parrot here, it flies away. - Sysmund can come in. 85 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,400 How can Sysmund come in if you do not have clothes on? 86 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:06,200 If the ladies close their eyes, I slip in and put down the animal. 87 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:12,100 Miamaja, listen. How shall I know that you are of the mind to enter a monastery? 88 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,240 Who says that? Not I. 89 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,700 If your hat doesn't stand up to the monastery, then I don't understand one bit. 90 00:07:20,860 --> 00:07:23,440 I don't want to be married off to a rag prince for a pound of gold, - 91 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,440 like how you sell a fat calf at the market to the highest bidder! 92 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,400 It's not a barrel of gold that's being flaunted, Miamaja. 93 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,120 It is half the kingdom. 94 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,200 Maybe all of it. 95 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:52,200 - Beep, beep. - So Gregor. Don't be fancy. 96 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,600 - You heard the ladies are not dressed. - Why are you standing lazying for? 97 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,960 Protect your king that he does not go astray. 98 00:08:00,020 --> 00:08:03,600 - Well, the animal? - Move it! 99 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:17,040 If only I could understand their plan. 100 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:21,960 - What do they want with the princess? - It's weird, uncle. She has locked herself in. 101 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,140 But the key is outside. She must be in cahoots with someone. 102 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:29,640 - Nonsense! - Yes, but... 103 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,760 Here we have the border. 104 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,800 Off here is Montania... 105 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,000 Here, the king. 106 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:51,600 Here's the gold... a bit hidden. 107 00:08:53,760 --> 00:09:01,120 Here is the princess, and here, the prince of Montania. 108 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:06,640 And here: Christmas. 109 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:13,960 The gold had to be paid before Christmas, but it was impossible thanks to... 110 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:20,920 And now the princess, instead of the gold... Why? 111 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,200 More drink, Klaes. 112 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:30,400 It was Wiessenwass scheme, it felt like a bolt from the blue. 113 00:09:30,560 --> 00:09:35,640 I admit, my knees were shaking that I was about to pass out. 114 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,760 But if the princess is still upset, then what happens when... 115 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:48,280 - Where is 'Christmas'? - It has been abolished. 116 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,040 Abolished? 117 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:54,280 The collector has taken it to fill it up again. 118 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:03,880 Abolished... Christmas... Juchs, my little Juchs. 119 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,760 Klaes, my top. 120 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,920 My top... 'Abolish'. 121 00:10:15,580 --> 00:10:18,640 Abolish! 122 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,160 Whistles. 123 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:47,760 Whistles. 124 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,400 Stick that whistle in. The Castle is razing! 125 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,660 The majesty is in the middle of his afternoon nap. 126 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,520 Good word again. Otherwise, it wasn't the king I whistled at. 127 00:10:55,680 --> 00:11:01,160 Was probably a chambermaid, whose dress you would sully with your stable fingers. 128 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,560 Missed the target. The maiden I'm looking for is covered in feathers, from head to tail. 129 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:11,160 And a little more beaky than a mouthpour. 130 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,240 Gregor? You won't find him. He is under arrest. 131 00:11:17,340 --> 00:11:19,880 - Chamber arrest? - Also with the princess. 132 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:23,560 They won't mate with a mean rake prince from Montania. 133 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:31,760 - Big things have happened here. - Can't deny that, I understand well. 134 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:34,600 But the poor bird shouldn't starve cause of that? 135 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:41,120 Shed your hide, hunter. The princess is bitter today. 136 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:51,960 Whistles. 137 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,960 Valentin? Are you back already? 138 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,440 Peculiar. It comes to me as if you had just left. 139 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,360 - Beep, beep... - Quiet, Gregor. 140 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:23,360 I let my horse stretch out, - 141 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:26,040 - that I shouldn't be missed for too long. 142 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:30,800 - Missed? By whom though? - Beep, beep. 143 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,800 There is one, that at least long for my return. 144 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:40,960 It is no art to be desired when the pocket is full of bait. 145 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,120 Majesty... 146 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,120 Lord King... 147 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:57,680 King-Kong. 148 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,400 - Little majesty, then we get... - What I say? Yes, thanks. 149 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:07,280 And I... don't stand by that. 150 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,480 - What's up? Sysmund, is the house on fire? - No, God forbid. 151 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:15,880 The councilor said it was necessary to wake up the majesty. 152 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,420 Not since the last war has anyone dared to wake me from my nap. 153 00:13:20,580 --> 00:13:23,640 This occasion is just as important. 154 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,520 Judging by the appearance of the Reich Council more important. 155 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:34,280 He looks like my blessed father's rooster, although it only had one eye. 156 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,880 How in the morning it stood and howled until the sun rose. 157 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:44,600 It had an expression in its eye that was its merit, - 158 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,320 - that such a phenomenon allowed itself to occur. 159 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,920 The sun rises every day, I know. 160 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:56,840 So far, no one has encouraged me to follow such a trivial routine. 161 00:13:57,040 --> 00:14:00,320 Av... Is he going to break his king's arm? 162 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,080 No, forbid, the heavenly ruler. If it's not just for sight. 163 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,480 What purpose would providence have in breaking my arm? 164 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,560 It is not for us ordinary people to explore the intentions of providence. 165 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,320 You better be good, so I don't explore your back pieces. 166 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:24,760 Too much trouble for little me. Perhaps the majesty will accept the back pieces of the Reich Council? 167 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,280 Because he is the cause of the whole resurrection. 168 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:34,560 Closer with the ink. Stop shaking. 169 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,680 You must never tremble on your hand. 170 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,680 - Mr. Council of State. - Your Majesty, in a moment the King arrives. 171 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,680 Then I'll reveal everything! 172 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,000 Come and listen... Those humans are now strange. 173 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:12,880 - Anything new? - Yes, something is happening. 174 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,760 I beg your pardon, Sire. But the matter has the greatest urgency. 175 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,160 High king. I can with one stroke end all of my anguish. 176 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,280 Good for you... What about the pains of the kingdom? 177 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:42,140 I misspoke... The kingdom's agony is also my agony. 178 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:46,960 And vice versa. I have received a revelation. 179 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:51,760 Here, high king, you have the result. 180 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,120 A revelation? 181 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,360 All our troubles have to do with Christmas. 182 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,880 The gold had to be paid before Christmas, now the Princess must be betroth before. 183 00:16:02,540 --> 00:16:06,720 This document lacks only your name stroke, high king, - 184 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,200 - then it's law! 185 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:12,880 "Hereby do indeed..." 186 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,040 - Christmas abolished? - Abolished? 187 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,320 Abolished? 188 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,280 - What does 'abolished' mean? - What will be next? 189 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,480 Can you... abolish it? 190 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:38,760 - Count, you are a genius. - It is the king who decides. 191 00:16:38,920 --> 00:16:44,480 - No Christmas, no engagement. - Then she will be happy. 192 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:51,600 - An incredible idea. - I was just sitting a berrel of beer and... 193 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,600 - Enough, we do it! Hand me a writing feather. 194 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:57,880 I immediately put my royal hand sand seal under. 195 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,880 How happy she will be, Miamaja. 196 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,960 It has not lost its feathers in longing for its rescuer. 197 00:17:08,220 --> 00:17:13,560 If so, it should be a shame if it has had its nest here, since I left. 198 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:17,160 This isn't a nest, it's a cage. 199 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:20,840 For birds or people? 200 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:25,960 For birds a cage... For people a prison. 201 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,760 - The key is in the front? - A prison it still is. 202 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,280 Miamaja! 203 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:37,600 Miamaja, are you there? 204 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:41,480 Miamaja, open immediately. 205 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,280 Well, it's open? 206 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,440 I have big news. 207 00:17:52,140 --> 00:17:54,880 It appears to me that everyone runs in here. 208 00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:57,180 Is it just your dad who doesn't have access? 209 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,080 Gregor needs to be fed, and Sibbe is here as you see. 210 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:05,920 Hear my girl. Your father has ended all our anguishes. 211 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:09,040 You don't have to get married. 212 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,400 You can stay with your old father as long as it suits you. 213 00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,360 How? 214 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:21,200 I promised you to the strange prince BEFORE Christmas. 215 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:24,880 - Do you remember that? - Yes, vaguely. 216 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:29,120 Hold on tight... It won't be Christmas! 217 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:33,560 - It won't be Christmas? - No. Christmas is abolished by law. 218 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,600 It will never be again. Isn't that a wonderful invention, my girl? 219 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:43,240 Everything must go: hearts, wreaths, Christmas cakes, mistletoe and rice porridge. 220 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,440 All is over and forbidden! Signed by the King's hand and seal. 221 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:49,240 So what do you say? 222 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:55,440 - How long will it last? - Until after Christmas. 223 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:02,320 - Long after... Always. - Always? 224 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:08,080 - What do you say? - You are the sweetest and smartest dad I have. 225 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,680 - What's up now? - I was looking forward to Christmas. 226 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:28,960 - Why that? - I wanted a silver-buttoned cane. 227 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,920 I'll give you cane! 228 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:37,640 Don't you have better things in the head? We stand in the most world-changing stages. 229 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:47,000 - I don't get anything. - Not hard. Montania gets no gold, no princess. 230 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:53,880 - It's good, isn't it? - No, because they won't accept that, then they start war again. 231 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,040 That is bad? 232 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,800 - No, then Miamaja have to take the foreign prince. - That's good. 233 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:06,560 No, she can't, because before Christmas she is engaged to someone else. 234 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:12,720 - Who, dear uncle? - With you, dear Juchs. 235 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,440 when your mood is at an all-time low 236 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,720 and everything is at cross for no reason at all 237 00:20:59,880 --> 00:21:03,880 so pinch your earlobe 238 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:09,920 and pull until you feel all the sadness let go 239 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:13,280 it's surely, it's true, december 240 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,120 it's the day before the day before the day you know 241 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:21,000 and anyone who wants to add a damper 242 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,160 on our pleasure, we will notify him immediately 243 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:29,360 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 244 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,640 it's surely, it's soon, it's Christmas. 245 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:40,640 --- Subtitles by Essery. ---