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Their popularity grew in the 19th century and spread throughout Europe, prompting Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann to pen a children's short story in 1816 called The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, transcribed as Shchelkunchik) is a 1973 Soviet/Russian animated film from the Soyuzmultfilm studio directed by Boris Stepantsev and based partly on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker, but more closely on E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" which inspired the ballet.
Drosselmeyer mends the nutcracker with a handkerchief. As the guests depart, Clara and Fritz are sent off to bed. Near midnight, Clara goes downstairs to find her nutcracker. As the clock strikes twelve, the Christmas tree gets bigger and all the toy soldiers, as well as the nutcracker, come to life and battle the mice.
The Nutcracker, also known as George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, is a 1993 American Christmas ballet film based on Peter Martins's stage production and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Darci Kistler , Damian Woetzel , Kyra Nichols , Bart Robinson Cook, Macaulay Culkin , Jessica Lynn Cohen, Wendy Whelan , Margaret Tracey, Gen Horiuchi , Tom ...
The Nutcracker in 3D [4] (also released as The Nutcracker: The Untold Story) is a 2010 3D Christmas musical fantasy film adapted from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. Directed, co-written and produced by Andrei Konchalovsky , the film stars Elle Fanning , Nathan Lane , John Turturro , Frances de la Tour , Richard E. Grant ...
The Nutcracker and the Magic Flute contains various pieces from The Nutcracker but also from other works by Tchaikovsky, including excerpts of Swan Lake. Despite its title and the presence of music by Mozart in the soundtrack, the film has little to do with The Magic Flute. [2] It also contains music by Gluck as well as Brahms' Hungarian Dances.
The Nuttiest Nutcracker is a 1999 animated direct-to-video Christmas film loosely based on the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. The film was directed by Harold Harris and starred the voices of Jim Belushi, Cheech Marin, and Phyllis Diller. [1] This film follows a group of anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables. Their goal is to help the Nutcracker's ...
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形, Kurumiwari Ningyō, lit. ' The Nutcracker ' ) is a Japanese-American stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio , [ 1 ] very loosely based on Tchaikovsky 's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker and E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1816 story " The Nutcracker and the Mouse King ". [ 2 ]