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Mary lives in 1920s Vienna with her parents and her younger brother Max, and wants the family together at Christmas. Her parents go out to a party, but a visit from her uncle Albert brings a dollhouse and a nutcracker doll that Mary likes at once. That night the doll grows to human height and comes alive as NC, then leads her down to the sitting room, where everything around them is enormous. There she is introduced to Gielgud, a chimpanzee, Tinker, an opera singer, and Sticks, a drummer boy. Climbing the tree, Mary meets the Snow Fairy, who looks like her mother and explains that NC is a prince whose kingdom the Rat King and the Rat Queen have taken, and that the queen's magic has turned him into a nutcracker.
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- Aaron Michael Drozinas Max
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)
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- In December 2020, Russian state development corporation VEB.RF sued the film's producers over $127.8 million in unpaid loans, claiming they had withheld proceeds from ticket sales.
- Director Andrei Konchalovsky deliberately gave the film's villainous rats Nazi-like qualities, one of the choices in the adaptation that alienated both critics and audiences.
- A 2022 Meduza article reported that the film was financed mainly by VEB.RF, a Russian state development corporation chaired by Vladimir Putin, and was the most expensive Russian film produced to date.
- The score was built from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet music and his Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, with lyrics by Tim Rice, and perhaps because the film failed, no soundtrack album was ever released.
- Andrei Konchalovsky had wanted to make the film for over twenty years; he shot it in 3D to convey the fantasy material and reach a family audience, but adapted it with no ballet sequences at all, saying "ballet cannot work in cinema very well."
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