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What ski movie is throw it up in?

Movie about German or Swiss man on ski holiday

  • Trying to remember a film I saw on television years ago. I was either German or Swiss and was about a heavyset man on a ski holiday. I remember it was very nearly silent (but was not a silent movie; it looked relatively modern) and everything was a sort of a disaster for him, and I remember it being unexpectedly sweet, and that's all I remember.Hope me!

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    Just watched it again and I can see why I thought it was German or Swiss -- it's shot MOS with all the voices dubbed, many with faux German accents, and seems to take place in a sort of fantasy Teutonic state, with leiderhosen and polka and dogs with brandy barrels around their neck.

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Never mind, I think I chased the film down, and it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pLKAj9Xs8 available on YouTube. Looks like it isn't set in Europe after all, but Massachusetts, which is sort of the Europe of America.

maxsparber

I barely know you, but......http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034823/?

the webmistress

No, this film felt more 1960s, and was really a series of comic set pieces about skiing and being in a ski chalet or something like that. I remember the overarching quality of the film was enduring constant small frustrations.

maxsparber

Black and white? Or in color?

Carillon

Color.

maxsparber

Norwegian rather than German: was it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252610/?

davidjmcgee

Or Swedish, but filmed in Switzerland and featuring a somewhat heavyset Norwegian comedian as one of the leads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4llskapsresan_2_%E2%80%93_Snowroller? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi5t3AvzgLc). It isn't very silent, though, but ends with a wedding (and an unusual wedding gift).

effbot

Was it one of Jacques Tati's movies about M. Hulot? I know Les Vacances de M. Hulot was about a middle-aged Frenchman vacationing at the seaside, but maybe there's a winter vacation version? These movies are largely silent and gently parody "modern," post-war (WWII) European life.

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