Jul På Slottet (Christmas at the Castle) is a classic Danish Julekalender first aired in 1986.
The King of an unnamed fairytale country is in trouble. His country has just lost a war against the neigbouring country of Montania, and has had to sue for peace. The Montanians will give them on one of two conditions: Either he must give Montania his own weight in gold as reparations before Christmas, and he is not a slender man, and the treasury is inexplicably empty. Or his daughter, Miamaja, must marry the Prince of Montania, and she only has eyes for the handsome young hunter Valentin.
This also worries the castle's nisser. They get their food from the king's remains, and he is dieting, and from the porridge that Princess Miamaja leaves for them in the attic every day.
Meanwhile, the king's councillor, the sinister Count Rabsenfuchs, is plotting to seize the throne.
The series was filmed on location at Castle Rosenholm in Jutland, the ancestral home of the Rosencrantz family of Hamlet fame.
Tropes
- Adipose Rex: The King is rather well-fed, which becomes a problem, when Montania demands the king's weight in gold as reparations.Miamaja: Is there so much gold in the world?
- Evil Chancellor: Count Rabsenfuchs.
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Real-Life Relative: Morten Grunwald (The King) and Lily Wejding (his sister Fedorika) were married in real life. - Scenery Porn: The series makes the most of the stately Castle Rosenholm and its beautiful surroundings.
