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Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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In Russia and most of the former Soviet Union (even in Ukraine, Georgia and Baltics), they watch one and the same film for 25 years, now. Here's the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/

I'm pretty sure it's more like 35+ years. Soviet Union has been gone for 23 years now.

It's a Soviet love story where a guy gets so drunk with his buddies that he ends up getting on the plane instead of his friend and goes to another city. Wakes up in the airport, calls a cab, gives him his street address and is dropped off at an identical street with identical apartment building and opens the door with his key, to someone else's apartment.

Unless you lived during those times, it's hard to understand how everything could be nearly identical, but the equality of that was a key soviet ideal. The movie pokes fun at how ridiculous that really is, but at the same time has a love story form in those conditions.

I doubt that narrative would have been allowed even a decade earlier.

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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In Russia and most of the former Soviet Union (even in Ukraine, Georgia and Baltics), they watch one and the same film for 25 years, now. Here's the film: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073179/

I watch this every New Year's eve, do Russians watch it on Christmas Eve?

Good point, it's New Year's Eve, not Christmas.

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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post #10

Kalle Anka provides a excellent time where the parents can take a break after eating the Christmas dinner, drink coffee, and prepare for the event of delivering and opening presents with the children. A break, where everyone is expected lean back, to sit still and be calm.

>where everyone is expected lean back, to sit still and be calm.

Now that's Christmas magic

Re: Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)

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post #6

for some unexpicable reasons, in italy we get 80's movies (Trading Places (1983) is the top) and asterix cartoons. I used to wait eagerly for those, to be frank.

Astérix, Lucky Luke and Tintin cartoons are a holiday tradition of many years in the province of Quebec, Canada, as well.
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