![]() ![]() 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. Near midnight, Clara goes downstairs to find her nutcracker. As the guests depart, Clara and Fritz are sent off to bed. Drosselmeyer mends the nutcracker with a handkerchief. Clara is amused by the nutcracker and dances happily around the room, but Fritz snatches it away and damages it with a toy sword. Suddenly, a nutcracker drops off the Christmas tree. The guests are entertained by a trio of masquerade dancers, but Clara is noticeably uncomfortable around Drosselmeyer, who keeps looking at her. He also entertains them, especially Clara, by displaying the castle he was creating at the film's start, including moving figurines of a ballerina and a sword dancer. Drosselmeyer, who is a friend of the family, enters the room and gives toys to the children. But when she goes to her family's Christmas party and sees Fritz playing with a hand puppet rat that strongly resembles the one in the dream, she becomes very uneasy.Ĭlara, her family, and all their guests dance at the Christmas party. Clara, a girl on the verge of adolescence, is asleep in her bedroom, dreaming of dancing with a prince before being interrupted by her younger brother Fritz, who summons a giant rat to bite her hand, turning her ugly. The toy theatre stage opens the rest of the film is implied to take place on this stage. After it is apparently completed, he falls asleep at his work table. Suddenly getting an idea, he begins building on an intricate mechanical project resembling a cross between a model castle, a music box, and a toy theatre. Hoffmann.ĭrosselmeyer, a clockmaker and toymaker, is in his workshop. It is a film adaptation of 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the 1816 short story " The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. Nutcracker: The Motion Picture, also known as Pacific Northwest Ballet's Nutcracker or simply Nutcracker, is a 1986 American Christmas performing arts film produced by Pacific Northwest Ballet in association with Hyperion Pictures and Kushner/Locke, and released theatrically by Atlantic Releasing Corporation.
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