A search for the origin of the Sinterklaas celebration. More than 30 years of research was spent on this release, in which, during a period of the last 20 years, Saint Nicholas and Midwinter rites have been filmed in almost all European countries, as well as outside. For two years it has been perfected and assembled. From over a hundred hours of material, a film was created that sheds a completely different light on the Sinterklaas festival and the issue of Zwarte Piet. With new insights from experts who were never seen or heard on television.
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A search for the origin of the Sinterklaas celebration. More than 30 years of research was spent on this release, in which, during a period of the last 20 years, Saint Nicholas and Midwinter rites have been filmed in almost all European countries, as well as outside. For two years it has been perfected and assembled. From over a hundred hours of material, a film was created that sheds a completely different light on the Sinterklaas festival and the issue of Zwarte Piet. With new insights from experts who were never seen or heard on television.
2016-12-01
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A search for the origin of the Sinterklaas celebration
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There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?
Elk jaar levert het weer problemen op om alle pakjes in november per boot van Spanje naar Nederland te krijgen. Daarom heeft Sinterklaas een oplossing bedacht: een geheime pakjesopslag in Nederland. Als Sinterklaas maanden voor de intocht alvast stiekem naar Nederland komt om persoonlijk de geheime pakjesopslag in Nederland te controleren, beginnen de problemen zich langzaam op te stapelen. Na een spectaculaire noodlanding met de Pakjes-Boeing loopt de planning zo in de war, dat zelfs de intocht in het water dreigt te vallen en het niet zeker lijkt dat er in december wel voldoende cadeautjes zijn voor alle kinderen.
Sinterklaas and his Pieten are on their way to the Netherlands, on their new ship Pakjesboot 13. However, the ship is way too heavily loaded and sinks in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Sint and his Pieten scurry of to a deserted island and luckily all manage to reach it alive. But, how will they now reach the Netherlands...?