It would not be Christmas in Italy with out Una Poltrona per Due on television.
Italy is residence to among the world’s oldest and most spectacular Christmas traditions which have illuminated and enriched the Italian festive season for hundreds of years.
It additionally has some extra surprising modern-day traditions and few are extra intriguing than the annual screening of Buying and selling Locations on Italian tv at Christmas.
Yr after yr, by widespread demand, hundreds of thousands of Italians sit down to observe the dubbed model of the film, Una Poltrona per Due.
The traditional American comedy, a Twentieth-century tackle the story of the wealthy man (Dan Aykroyd) and the poor man (Eddie Murphy), has develop into a fixture in Italy each Christmas.
The film was launched in US cinemas on 8 June 1983, and in Italian cinemas on 19 January 1984.
Though the movie was an immediate success within the US field workplace, in Italy it got here solely thirteenth within the rating of most seen movies that yr.
Directed by John Landis, the film tells the story of an upper-class commodities dealer (Akroyd) and a poor avenue 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 and is now a festive establishment.
There’s additionally a big financial issue for re-screening the identical film annually: it prices far much less to broadcast a traditional in comparison with buying the rights to a brand new title.
Regardless of the causes, public approval has remained constantly excessive down by the a long time, with greater than two million viewers watching in 2017.
There’s even a Fb fan web page devoted solely to the annual screening, with round 8,000 followers.
The excellent news for Buying and selling Locations followers in Italy is that the much-loved traditional might be aired as standard on Christmas Eve 2023 on Italia 1 at 21.20.
