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Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 1:52 am
by kant1781
Well, so, I promised this to Cody Wilkes the First ages ago, but now I finally got around to do it: In 2005 Alexandra received the Undine Award, an Austrian film prize for young actors and actresses, for "Best Actress from the Nordic Countries", presented to her at the Congress Casino in Baden (Austria), September 30, 2005. The laudator was Austrian actress Elke Winkens.
A one-hour movie file of the ceremony was put on the festival website from which I ripped it in cooperation with Jenny, then webmistress of the now long-defunct website alexandra-dahlstrom.com. The file was then hosted on her site and suddenly disappeared together with it in 2007. Since then it has been lost - at least I am not aware that it has been available anywhere. I have now made a nice little 6-minute-video of the part in which Alexandra gets her prize and put it on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGbN6fNm0wI

Enjoy! First, there is a short laudatio which is in German. (I may get around to translating it later on.) After that, a clip from "Fröken Sverige" for which Alex was being honoured. And then, a wonderful speech by Alex, partly in German, partly in English, partly in Swedish, with a more than confused Swedish ambassador to Austria trying to translate her words into German. He fails miserably, but to be honest, I would have been more than confused in her presence that night too. She looks devastatingly gorgeous.

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:16 am
by fish
Beautiful.

I'm sure I would be as tongue tied as the ambassador too, and I agree that "She looks devastatingly gorgeous". Image

Thanks heaps for sharing. :D *:)*

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Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:44 am
by Ian
*:)* *:)* *:)*

Nice one, Dave. :D

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:26 pm
by kant1781
I especially love the small glance she throws at the ambassador around 4:33 when she starts to realize that something's going wrong with his translations... so cute. :lol: The last thing she says, by the way, means "I promise that I won't wait for another seven years before I make my next film". (The presenter had alluded to the fact that seven years lie between FA and Fröken Sverige.) Lovely accent, too. :oops:

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:50 am
by Ian
Six years, surely?

I love her voice. :oops: :lol:

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 1:13 pm
by kant1781
Ian wrote:Six years, surely?


You may be right concerning the facts, but she clearly says "sieben" (pronounced "ZEE-ban"), meaning "seven".

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:35 am
by Ian
I still want to know who Cody Wilkes is. :wink:

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:36 pm
by snaps
A still from the Undine Award ceremony:

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Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 2:15 am
by Ian
I downloaded the full movie back when -took hours, and then the thing wouldn't play at all!

Thank heavens for Dave. *:)*

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:32 am
by fish
kant1781 wrote:I especially love the small glance she throws at the ambassador around 4:33 when she starts to realize that something's going wrong with his translations... so cute....

Almost as if she can't look at him for fear of bursting out laughing. Very cute. :D
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Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 10:16 pm
by kant1781
Maybe he was just nervous because he was aware of Alex's record of messing up award ceremonies by turning acceptance speeches into polictial manifestos. :lol:

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 10:31 am
by fish
They were classic images from the awards weren't they.
She really gave that dork heaps, and deservedly so too. :x :twisted: Image

Re: Video of Alex receiving the Undine Award 2005

PostPosted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 12:45 am
by Ian
lol It's the stuff of legend!