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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

After receiving a gift left to her by her late mother, Clara is led into a parallel world and finds herself obliged to take sides in a war waged between the four realms within this toy world.

Clara is unable to unlock the gift of a strange egg-shaped box left to her by her late mother and given to her by her father just before they set out for a party at her godfather Drosselmeyer's house.

At the party, Drosselmeyer reveals that he made the egg for Clara's mother when she was younger, and Clara is led into a parallel world where she finds toys who feel abandoned on learning of the death of Clara's mother, their queen. Clara finds herself obliged to take sides in a war waged between the four realms within this toy world.

Based on the story by ETA Hoffmann.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Last on

Christmas Eve 2022 17:25
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One

Music Played

  • Andrea Marie

    Eternity

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse Des Fleurs

  • Scottish National Orchestra - Neeme Jarvi

    Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act II: No 13 Waltz of The Flowers

  • Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic

    The Nutcracker, Op. 71A (Ballet Suite): III. Valse Des Fleurs - Tempo Di Valse

Credits

Writer Ashleigh Powell
Writer E.T.A. Hoffmann
Director Lasse Hallstrom
Director Joe Johnston
Clara Mackenzie Foy
Sugar Plum Keira Knightley
Mother Ginger Helen Mirren
Drosselmeyer Morgan Freeman
Louise Ellie Bamber
Mr. Stahlbaum Matthew MacFayden
Shiver Richard E Grant
Short Butler Nick Mohammed
Fritz Tom Sweet
Sweets Cavalier Sergei Polunin
Cavalier Omid Djalili
Cook Meera Syal
Harlequin Jack Whitehall
Philip Jayden Fowora-Knight
Hawthorne Eugenio Derbez
Tall Butler Charles Streeter

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