Italy to display screen Una Poltrona per Due on Christmas Eve for the twenty second time.
Italy is house to a number of the world’s oldest and most spectacular Christmas traditions which have illuminated and enriched the Italian festive season for hundreds of years.
The nation additionally has some extra surprising modern-day traditions and few are extra intriguing than the annual screening of Trading Places on Italian tv at Christmas.
Year after yr, thousands and thousands of individuals in Italy sit down to observe the dubbed model of the 1983 film whose title in Italian is Una Poltrona per Due.
Last yr a restored 4K model of the movie returned to the large display screen in Italy 4 a long time after its launch in Italian cinemas.
The basic American comedy, a Twentieth-century tackle the story of the wealthy man (Dan Aykroyd) and the poor man (Eddie Murphy), has turn out to be a fixture in Italy each Christmas.
Directed by John Landis, the film was launched in US cinemas on 8 June 1983, and in Italian cinemas on 19 January 1984.
Although the movie was an prompt success within the US field workplace, in Italy it got here solely thirteenth within the rating of most considered movies that yr.
The film tells the story of an upper-class commodities dealer (Akroyd) and a poor road hustler (Murphy) whose lives cross when they’re unwittingly made the topic of an elaborate guess to check how every man would carry out when their life circumstances are swapped.
First aired by Italia 1 on Christmas Day in 1989, the film has been screened in Italy at Christmas time virtually yearly since 1997.
The custom has been damaged solely six occasions: in 2001 (when the movie was screened on Christmas Day), in 2002 (31 October), in 2003 (21 December), in 2007 (25 November), in 2011 (23 December) and in 2005 (when it was not screeed in any respect).
There can be a major financial issue for re-screening the identical film annually: it prices far much less to broadcast a cult basic in comparison with buying the rights to a brand new title.
Whatever the explanations, public approval has remained persistently excessive down via the a long time, and has even began to develop lately.
In 2022 greater than 1.9 million viewers in Italy tuned in, the yr after that the quantity climbed to 2 million whereas final yr it rose to 2.4 million.
There is even a Facebook fan web page devoted solely to the annual screening, with round 10,000 followers.
The excellent news for Trading Places followers in Italy is that the much-loved movie will retain its prime time spot on Christmas Eve 2025 on Italia 1.
The movie may also be streamed on Mediaset Infinity in addition to on Prime Video, the place it’s out there in its unique language model with Italian subtitles.
