1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,760 A long, long time ago... 2 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,840 ... so long that nobody remembers... 3 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,120 ... a king lived here in the castle. 4 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,520 And his daughter, lovely Princess Miamaja. 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,800 Although it was a fairy king, they were not fairy rich. 6 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,520 The enemy demanded that the princess allow herself to be betrothed - 7 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,600 - with their prince before Christmas or peace wouldn't happen. 8 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,840 'No thanks,' said Miamaja and locked herself into her chamber. 9 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,520 Everyone was sad and Christmas was approaching. 10 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,900 But then the king made a law, abolishing Christmas. 11 00:01:07,260 --> 00:01:11,000 the night is dark and far too long 12 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,200 but only lasts until sunrise 13 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,240 when the moon man closes his eyes 14 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,760 and the stars go out, then the night is over 15 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,600 good morning, the sun is rising 16 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:37,280 yawns, stretches his body 17 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,400 good morning, now it goes loose, wake up from your stupor 18 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:48,000 the day is calling, it is fresh and new, it is morning again 19 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,440 good morning, the night is over 20 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:58,040 the sun's lamp is lit, it shines brightly 21 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,180 get up in a hurry, the day dawns, it's ready for use 22 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:06,360 it is here and now, it is morning again. 23 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,440 No, let me. 24 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:24,520 - Good morning, dear Papa. - Good morning. 25 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,740 - Did you sleep well? - Yes, now I can again, that you are satisfied. 26 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,920 Never mind with Christmas. It is nothing but... 27 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,720 Christmas! 28 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:47,140 - We are expecting guests. - It was nice, it's so boring here. Who's coming? 29 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,160 - The dancing master... - Van Dango! 30 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,160 - Senor Van Dango! 31 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:54,800 (BANG) 32 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,680 Calm! Just a minor accident. 33 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,600 - In the middle of the night! - It's only passing. 34 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,480 Bim-bam, it said. But the anthem... the formula. 35 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,700 Why are Mirko and Fimpe sleeping in the day-time? 36 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,700 Little Magnum, they ran with Christmas spirit all night. 37 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,040 - And no breakfast. - Breakfast? 38 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:31,080 Yes, you will get, and then probably comes the dance master, I heard... Van Dango, himself. 39 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,680 Van Dango has a mango in a tango... 40 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:37,360 - No, little Magnum. A minuet! - It's a now-et. 41 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:39,360 - High, so spot. - Can you guess. 42 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:42,440 - On a plank. - An anthem... anthem! 43 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,540 - Bring on the first stanza! - The first word! 44 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,760 The first substance, the secret fire, the philosophical mercury. 45 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,480 - And two drops of pixie beer! - The world's basilicum. 46 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,720 Magnus, Valentinus, Thomas Aquinas, I don't remember right now. 47 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:10,680 - He's getting old. - Surely not. A man in his 325th best year! 48 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:53,600 - Is that a harp you're making? - No, a new string to my bow. 49 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,800 "Don't draw the bow too hard" says a new word. 50 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,800 - Maybe you have done that? - It should could handle that. 51 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,240 There is music in it... 52 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,120 I have to change clothes before the dance master comes. 53 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,680 You only go, Sibbe. I can find the way myself. 54 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,440 We are going to dance the menuet today. 55 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,600 VALENTIN PLAYS THE MENUET. 56 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:40,240 - You have to teach me that, Valentin! - Would like to. It takes many days to learn. 57 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,480 - It doesn't matter. - Wish I could dance it. 58 00:05:47,640 --> 00:05:52,040 - It is almost impossible to learn. - It doesn't matter. 59 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,320 BELL SOUND. 60 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,300 What did I say. He's coming now! He's here! 61 00:05:59,460 --> 00:06:04,320 - Who, Sibbe? - The Dance Meister. Senor Van Dango! 62 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,720 Heh-heh! 63 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,120 Come on, Fimpe! The bath is ready. 64 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:11,920 Fimpe-child! You must not get dirty just before you have to take a shower. 65 00:07:12,580 --> 00:07:14,360 Ha-ha! 66 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:20,240 Matre de danse, solo-nolo Senor Van Dango... 67 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:34,040 High born Majesty... I am only dust before your feet. 68 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:43,040 Graceful Reich lady, enchanting ballerina... 69 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:45,600 Enchanté. 70 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:52,000 - You too. Sit down. - Humblest thanks. Far too great a grace! 71 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,400 High-born princess, ambassador of virtue on earth... 72 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,400 - Senor Van Dango... - How chic! How exquisite! 73 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,600 You can see the signet that marked this seal. 74 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,440 Good day, maiden. 75 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,000 it's surely, it's true, december 76 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,880 it's the day before the day before the day you know 77 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,600 and anyone who wants to add a damper 78 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:33,600 on our pleasure, we inform him immediately 79 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,640 let us forget that the world is false and hollow 80 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:39,420 it's surely, it's soon, 81 00:08:39,540 --> 00:08:41,440 it's Christmas. 82 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:47,760 Uncle Mirko, what should it say, - 83 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,640 - "there is no harm in learning the minuet"? 84 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:55,680 Just means... if you have learned it, you know it. 85 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,120 - At least if... - What for? 86 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:05,120 It's not me who should... uh... It's your dad who oughtta... 87 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,540 One day when you're adult, you'll find a cute pixie girl. 88 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:13,240 - Like your father... - Like dad? 89 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:18,080 We loved the song and music and the the menuet, but he's too old now. 90 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:21,320 Menuet? We have never danced the menuet. 91 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,320 HORN SIGNALS. 92 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,320 Listen. Now they play again! 93 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,280 Cheers, Dango. 94 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,320 Your Royal Majesty... Your Grace... 95 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,720 High princess... 96 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:00,400 Ah! 97 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:03,880 Where did I get to? Yes, yes! 98 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:11,760 In La Ronde, the Marquis made mistakes left and right. 99 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:17,320 - Like the vicomtesse... - Who knew right from left! 100 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,000 ... was on the way forward in chasse graves! 101 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,960 Chasse grave... wonderful! 102 00:10:29,560 --> 00:10:35,760 You mean if a person knows the difference between right and left, - 103 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:41,000 - can Senor Van Dango teach... anyone the minuet? 104 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:47,320 - It has not failed so far. - It should be enjoyable to watch. 105 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,900 Don't look at me, my little rascal. Partly I know right and left and the minuet... 106 00:10:54,020 --> 00:10:58,600 - And partly, I don't want to. - It's not you at all, Papa. 107 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,680 No, never. I have never seen anything like it! 108 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,820 It wasn't invented in my time, fortunately. 109 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:20,840 Risch-rasch, I say! In my days, straight to the morning. As true as I stand here. 110 00:11:20,980 --> 00:11:26,600 Good word again, little mother. But we didn't dance the menuet. 111 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:29,720 What did you dance in the old days? 112 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,600 What was that now? 113 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,320 one-two-three and jump step nose forward and belly in 114 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,600 then put your arm around my life, it's pixie pastime 115 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:49,080 over stick and stone it goes, until we stand still again 116 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:55,520 one-two-three, a little jump, it's just pixie fun for an elf body, stop 117 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,920 one-two-three and jump a step, nose forward and belly in 118 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,980 One step forward and two steps back, it's a wonderful pixie cure 119 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,440 over sticks and stones it goes until we stand right on the spot 120 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:31,400 one-two-three, a little jump, it's just pixie fun for an elf body, stop 121 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,520 one-two-three and jump a step, nose forward and belly in 122 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:55,200 You will easily learn it, because it is not pixie-difficult 123 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,800 over sticks and stones it goes until we stand right on the spot 124 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:07,840 one-two-three, a little jump, it's just pixie fun for an elf body, stop 125 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,120 Hey, hunter! Come out here for a while. 126 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:37,840 Hunter and stableman and birdcatcher! Out here! I bring a message from the castle. 127 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,800 Hello, hunter... 128 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Hello? 129 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:09,440 Is he lying there snoring among creatures like another swine! 130 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,360 Up with it! Here is a message from people, - 131 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,680 - who are exalted above a louse like you! 132 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:27,480 Let me go! 133 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,680 Who sneaks onto the princess's horse? 134 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,080 - Oh, my arm! - Who will taste the whip? 135 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,080 Are you a sneak? 136 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,000 Stop it, for the sake of my unborn children! 137 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:45,580 It's me, the king's own mouthpour, Sysmund! 138 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,960 Just you Sysmund? I couldn't know. I don't want to harm a hair on you. 139 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:56,240 Harm? You've almost ripped them all out of my head. 140 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,920 Damn a welcome one gets here in the stables! 141 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,800 Be happy, you are an honest man, if not, you're welcome would be not so nice. 142 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,840 Naturally. If your friends are thus received, - 143 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,760 - then I will rather not be counted among your unfriends. 144 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:13,760 They won't get over their welcome with their lives in safety. 145 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:18,400 You have other things to think about than tearing people's arms off. 146 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:23,760 - You are going to the castle. - Does the king want roast hare again? 147 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:31,800 - Nah, the princess sent me. - What does she want a petty hunter? 148 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:38,080 That question was well placed! I should merely say these words: First lesson! 149 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:40,620 - And nothing else? - And nothing else. 150 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,320 That message was not long. 151 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,040 No. That's why I don't make the visit long either. 152 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:53,360 I sense an air of stable... and hunter, - 153 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,520 - which does not show much respect for the king's mouthpour. Bye! 154 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,480 No, let me. 155 00:16:22,220 --> 00:16:27,320 - There. Now it sits in la France. - It bites me in the neck. 156 00:16:27,980 --> 00:16:32,160 Nonsense! It sits like with Senor Van Dangos. 157 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:37,400 - Now you can make a good impression. - On the Senor? 158 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,000 - No, on the princess! - Yes, that's clear. 159 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:48,520 The princess does not want to be with the foreign prince. 160 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:53,720 - That is why Christmas has been abolished. Get it? - Sure Uncle, I'm not stupid. 161 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,720 - Really? - That's why we don't get any Christmas presents. 162 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:04,080 - Exactly. That's the beauty of the plan! - Yes, but... 163 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:06,760 What? 164 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:09,600 I wanted a cane with silver buttons. 165 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,760 I'll give you the silver-knotted cane! 166 00:17:14,880 --> 00:17:17,800 Now listen, little Juchs. 167 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:23,640 Come, get started. Show me your chasse. 168 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,680 Love to, uncle. 169 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,760 Irresistible! And now your 'portebras'... 170 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:43,040 - An excellent menuet. - I can do it enough. 171 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,160 Most important; stay close to her. 172 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,680 If you can make her smile, the battle is won. 173 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:56,320 One-two-three... 174 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:24,600 Remember, the minuet is a court dance, not a clog waltz. 175 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,400 Clog waltz! Ha... 176 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:34,960 Watch out for the instep! The Achilles heel of any menuet. 177 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:41,200 The ankle must be kept arched in every movement. 178 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,480 And now... La Ronde! 179 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:52,160 Music! 180 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,880 No, no! Caramba! 181 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,440 Look at me. 'Portebras'... 182 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,960 Music! 183 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,480 Comme ci, comme sa. 184 00:20:55,600 --> 00:21:00,920 And now you, gracious Reich lady. Music! 185 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,000 Bravissimo! Enchanting! Enchanting! 186 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,200 - Will one of the gentlemen? - I will first. 187 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,600 Music! 188 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:06,960 Ha-ha! 189 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,240 Uh! 190 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:22,160 - How did the minuet pass? - Somehow. 191 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:27,200 And the princess... Did you see her face, did she smile? 192 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,480 She did more. She laughed like a cracked clog! 193 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:38,080 Clogs? Hmm... excellent. It will probably work. 194 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,080 - Valentin... no. - Yes! 195 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,080 --- Subtitles by Essery. ---