Thousands of people in Switzerland have been sitting on chairs, armchairs and sofas during the festive season for decades. He’s looking at a flickering rectangle. And watch the movie “Three Nuts for Cinderella”. The 1973 Christmas classic captivates countless people in this country every year.
This is why the Christmas movie is so popular.
Why is Christmas ribbon so popular? The SRF media office said on request that, in addition to the “amazing quality of the production”, the regularity of broadcasts for many years in almost all German public broadcasters is one reason. In fact, BAV releases the movie once to several times a year.
These are the current TV dates
- Sunday, December 4, 12:00, BR
- Sunday, December 4 at 3:05 PM WDR
- Sunday, December 11 at 4:35 PM MDR
- Sunday, December 18, 13:00, NDR
- Saturday, December 24, 13:40, Das Erste
- Saturday, December 24, 15:05 SRF1
- Saturday, December 24, 16:05, NDR
- Saturday, December 24, 18:50, One
- Saturday, December 24, 20:15, WDR
- Saturday, December 24, 23:10, SWR
- Sunday, December 25, 11:05, Das Erste
- Sunday, December 25, 15:35, RBB
- Monday, December 26, 13:10, SRF1
- Monday, December 26, 5:25 PM MDR
- Saturday, December 31st, 13:15 HR
- Sunday, January 1, 2023 at 2:10 PM on SWR
Planned summer production turned into winter movie
A petite young woman in a dark pink hooded cloak walks from a snow-covered terrace to a brightly lit castle. In one window, a peephole breathes into icicles on the glass. This famous scene from the TV classic “Cinderella for Three Nuts Cinderella” wants to be re-enacted every day by many visitors, young and old: the window of the “Ballroom” in the Saxon Castle of Moritzburg, a German-Czech co-production originating in 1973.
The cult fairy tale movie has dominated the Christmas television show for almost 50 years. It was supposed to be a summer movie. But everything was rewritten for the winter, as the GDR film production company DEFA wanted to start shooting immediately. Protagonist Libuše Šafránková (1953–2021) and the other actors froze in light Renaissance costumes despite long underwear, as the fabrics were quickly lined.
At the same time, screenwriter František Pavlícek (1923–2004) created a confident Cinderella that wouldn’t let herself be defeated. “This modernity and vitality of an emancipated main character is one reason for its enduring popularity,” says art historian Margitta Hensel, who studies the Cinderella myth. But the music of composer Karel Svoboda (1938–2007) also played an important role. “It was a lucky constellation,” Šafránková once recalled.
Cultural scientist Stefan Retzlaff also thinks the mix of fairy tales and film is “incredibly clever.” “Everything that belongs in a fairy tale is there and recognizable, but at the same time everything that doesn’t have to be fairy tale like has been greatly modernized.”
One of the last TV events for the German-speaking region
This makes “Three Nuts for Cinderella” one of the last remaining television specials. What “I bet..?” “Dinner for One” and Cinderella still succeed today: bringing the German-speaking world together in front of the screen. Accordingly, there is a second reason for the success of BAV media office’s “Cinderella for Three Nuts”: “The effect is similar to the TV classic “Dinner for One”, which is shown at the same time every year and is still watched by a large fan base. ” (grv)
Source : Blick
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