The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker (2010)

Experience the Holiday Classic as You've Never Seen it Before

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.

Date of release
2010-11-24
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (212)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Adventure, Fantasy, Family
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $16M
  • Budget: $90M
  • Earned 0.2× its budget
  • Based on: The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker in 3D is a 2010 3D Christmas musical fantasy film adapted from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet The Nutcracker. Directed, co-written and produced by Andrei Konchalovsky, the film stars Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Richard E. Grant and Yulia Vysotskaya, with Charlie Rowe and Shirley Henderson as the Nutcracker. Set in 1920s Vienna, the plot follows a young girl who receives a magical doll that is revealed to be a prince and embarks on an adventure to save his kingdom from the Rat King.

Production

Director Konchalovsky stated that the film had been his "dream project" for over twenty years. He was inspired to adapt it into 3D for several reasons; he believed that the format would be useful in conveying the fantastical nature of the material, capturing the emotions of CGI characters, and appealing to a family audience.

Konchalovsky gave the villainous rats Nazi-like qualities in his production, one of many elements in the adaptation which alienated both critics and audiences.

A 2022 article in Meduza reported that the film was primarily financed by VEB.RF, a Russian state development corporation chaired by Vladimir Putin, and that it was the most expensive Russian film produced to date.

In December 2020, VEB filed a lawsuit against the producers for unpaid loans, totaling $127.8 million, claiming they had withheld proceeds from ticket sales.

The film was announced at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and principal photography took place primarily in Budapest, Hungary that summer, before the set was moved to the Stern Film Studio in Pomáz.

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