The production “Our Erzgebirge is Christmas” has been clicked on the Internet around a hundred thousand times within a few days. But what is its magic?
A boy in a habit lights a light in the dark of the mountain. Together with an upper climber, the miner strides through important places of mining tradition in the Ore Mountains. The six-minute film “Our Ore Mountains is Christmas” ends in an atmospheric closing ceremony with the Steiger song – goose bumps guaranteed. This video, now published on the Internet, has been clicked around 100,000 times within a very short time.
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Behind it is a commissioned production by the Erzgebirgskreis, in cooperation with the Saxon regional association of miners, smelters and miners’ associations and its member associations. “In view of the cancellation of all mountain parades in the Ore Mountains due to the corona pandemic, it was very good when our idea of paying tribute to the many traditional mining associations in a suitable manner met with great approval,” explains District Administrator Frank Vogel. In the clip from the Sosa production company “Studio2 Media”, for example, original scenes such as the St. Anne’s Church, the Marienberg Horse Gopel, the Oelsnitz mining museum, the Sauschwart mine, the Schindlerschacht in Schneeberg and the Glöckel visitor mine in Johanngeorgenstadt appear alongside the miners’ protagonists.
“Our Erzgebirge is Christmas” hits people in the heart when it comes to the comments on the Facebook page of the tourism association, which gives the film reach. It is also distributed by many via the Whatsapp news service. “Very nice video, touches my heart and soul!” Exults one user. Another looked at it with tears in her eyes. “I always stood at the last mountain parade in Annaberg and thought of my father, for whom it was also the whole pride to be there even in old age and to proudly wear his habit. To the grave,” she comments. And the film also brings a piece of home into the distance for Ore Mountains residents in exile. “I can’t eham this Christmas for the first time in my life,” writes one user. “With the film you still brought my beloved Haamit closer to me. Thank you for that – and good luck to my apparently Arzgebirge!”
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