The Joulukalenteri
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The Joulukalenteri (Finnish for "The Christmas Calendar", the English word "the" is part of the name) is a 1997 Finnish television miniseries. It was based on the Danish series The Julekalender from 1991.
The series was shown in December 1997 one episode per day, concluding at Christmas. The original concept and script of the series, as well as its numerous songs came from the Danish trio of De Nattergale (Carsten Knudsen, Uffe Rødbæk Madsen and Viggo Sommer). The Finnish adaptation was directed by Jukka Virtanen and starred Seppo Korjus, Kari Lehtomäki, Raimo Smedberg and Jukka Virtanen.
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In Alaska (referred to as "a faraway place at the edge of the world") the old elf Iki-Iäkäs is dying, because the musicbox which plays his life's melody is about to stop... Iki-Iäkäs sends three elves, Toivo, Kauko and Hande, to Finland (whence the elves were driven away by the evil and greedy Näsä) to find the key to the music box so that it can be rewound.
Forgetting to fill the tank of their aeroplane, the elves crash into the woods. They manage to steal fuel from a nearby farm, whose occupants are completely unaware of the elves' presence or the true intentions of their bizarre guest Pentti, who in actuality is a Näsä sent to steal the elves' Book of Knowledge which holds the answer to any question. Despite getting the gas they can't leave, because the propeller was twisted in the crash and so Kauko, an elf of an established carpenter family, begins to make a new one out of wood.
As a comedic touch, the three elves speak in a mixture of Finnish and English. This is mostly Finnish but (almost) every line contains a few words or phrases replaced by English at random places.
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