Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, Hungary
The story
On Christmas Eve in 1920s Vienna, a young girl named Mary and her brother are visited by their eccentric uncle Albert, who gifts a magical wooden nutcracker that comes to life and takes her to a fantasy world to fight the evil Rat King.
- nazi
- fairy
- musical
- based on play or musical
- ballet
- vienna
- austria
- doll
- rat
- 1920s
- russian ballet
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Elle Fanning
Mary
Nathan Lane
Uncle Albert
John Turturro
The Rat King
Frances de la Tour
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
- Charlie Rowe — The Prince / Nicholas Charles
- Aaron Michael Drozin — Max
- Richard E. Grant — Father
- Yuliya Vysotskaya — Mother / The Snow Fairy
- Jonny Coyne — Gnomad
- Shirley Henderson — The Nutcracker (voice)
- Richard Philipps — Dr. Freud
- Fernanda Dorogi — Dr. Freud's Niece
- Kriszta Dorogi — Dr. Freud's Niece
- Dániel Mogács — Trolley Bus Orchestra Conductor
- Stuart Hopps — Butler / The Rat Queen's Servant
- Directed
- Andrei Konchalovsky
Production
- Rating
- 5.0 / 10 · 208 ratings
- Studio
- Vnesheconombank, Nutcracker Holdings, HCC Media Group, Russian Roulette Ltd.
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