All channels are broadcasting the traditional Christmas message from King Felipe VI this evening. In La 2 you can attend the Christmas concert of the RTVE orchestra and choir in the chapel of the Royal Palace of Madrid. For its part, Discovery Channel proposes a marathon of the series Gold Rush: Below Zero. Cinema is represented by an immortal film by the master John Ford, “The Grapes of Wrath”, and by one of the best works by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, the spearheads of French cinema in the 1990s, “Delicatessen”.
Christmas concert
8 p.m., La 2
The RTVE Orchestra and Choir celebrate Christmas with a concert in the Chapel of the Royal Palace of Madrid. The German Christoph König will take over the direction of the choir and an ensemble of the symphony orchestra to develop a program that will include works by classical composers such as Pachelbel, Praetorius and Saint-Saëns.
Christmas message from the king
All channels, 9:00 p.m
King Felipe VI will be there for another year. from one of the rooms of the Zarzuela Palace look into the homes of the Spaniards to deliver his traditional Christmas message, one of the television events of the year. In the speech, the monarch will take stock of the year's most important events and express his wishes for 2024.
Gold Rush: Below Zero marathon
10 p.m., Discovery Channel
Tony is holding a gold nugget in his hand.
Discovery Channel is airing an episode marathon of The Gold Rush: Below Zero. Befitting the winter season and its harsh weather, the miners have to contend with the arctic conditions. In addition to a large investment, they must also use their ingenuity and creativity more than ever to complete a mission that becomes complicated when the gold-rich ground freezes.
'Grapes of Wrath'
7:50 p.m., TCM
Grapes of Wrath. USA, 1940 (125 minutes). Director: John Ford. Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine.
The most compelling portrait of the depression that ravaged the United States in the early 1930s was made into a film by John Ford, who adapted Steinbeck's novel and created a hymn to solidarity through the story of a farming family fighting for its dignity. An everyday, lyrical, committed and masterful film.
'delicacies'
0.15, Movistar Indie
France, 1991 (100 minutes). Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Interpreters: Dominique Pinon, Pascale Benezech.
Jeunet and Caro were rightly the creative avant-garde of French commercial cinema for years. His inexhaustible ability to create images as surprising as they are fantastic explodes in Delicatessen, which travels into the priceless world of an apartment building, a kind of 13 Rue del Percebe, where an indescribable fauna of characters coexists in a world plagued by the hunger for something indefinite period of time. Post war period. Delicatessen is a futuristic fable that satirizes social injustices in a universe where the strong literally eat the weak.
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