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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 202217:25

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

RoleContributor
WriterAshleigh Powell
WriterE.T.A. Hoffmann
DirectorLasse Hallstrom
DirectorJoe Johnston
ClaraMackenzie Foy
Sugar PlumKeira Knightley
Mother GingerHelen Mirren
DrosselmeyerMorgan Freeman
LouiseEllie Bamber
Mr. StahlbaumMatthew MacFayden
ShiverRichard E Grant
Short ButlerNick Mohammed
FritzTom Sweet
Sweets CavalierSergei Polunin
CavalierOmid Djalili
CookMeera Syal
HarlequinJack Whitehall
PhilipJayden Fowora-Knight
HawthorneEugenio Derbez
Tall ButlerCharles Streeter

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