The Julekalender
– The Julekalender was a Danish TV series that ran at Christmas 1991. It was written and performed alm..
The Julekalender was a Danish TV series that ran at Christmas 1991. It was written and performed almost entirely by a trio of Danish comedy musicians called De Nattergale with financial and technical assistance from TV2, a Danish television company. It was hugely successful at the time, causing many invented phrases from the series to enter popular culture and was later released on VHS, and recently, DVD.
It had 24 episodes, as has been typical of other TV "calendars" before and since The Julekalender.
01 Dec 1991
Danish, English
Carsten Knudsen, Viggo Sommer, Uffe Rørbæk Madsen, Poul Bundgaard
The three elves ("nisser") Hansi, Fritz, and Günter have to save the dying "Gammelnisse", the only way being to rewind his magic music box. This leads to a hunt for the winding key far, far away in his old "nissehule". Close by, a wife and her husband live a normal life,oblivious to what is happening around them. Things get interesting when an ominous, strange man shows up at their door step late one night, looking for local elves.