The Nutcracker
Experience the Holiday Classic as You've Never Seen it Before
Country
Budget
$90 000 000
Box office
$16 178 959
Website
Director
Actors
Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour, Charlie Rowe, Aaron Michael Drozin, Richard E. Grant, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Jonny Coyne, Shirley Henderson
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Chris Solimine, Andrei Konchalovsky
Producer
Paul Lowin, Andrei Konchalovsky, Moritz Borman
Camera operator
Mike Southon
Composer
Artist
Kevin Phipps, Kevin R. Phipps
Audition
Celestia Fox, Deborah Aquila, Zsolt Csutak
Editing
Mathieu Bélanger, Andrew Glen
Whole Team (52)
Whole Team (52)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The majority of filming took place over 15 weeks in the new pavilions of the Stern film studio in Hungary (near Budapest), as well as on a nearby outdoor set where Kevin Fypps ('V for Vendetta', 'Troy', 'Band of Brothers') recreated the atmosphere of old Vienna, paying special attention to the building facades of that era and simulated cobblestone streets.
- Sixty extras who played the horde of rats attacking the city underwent special training in a 'rat training camp,' where specialists taught them to mimic the movements of rodents.
- To convey the atmosphere of the “rat” world, daytime street scenes were filmed at night, which allowed for the effect of a “colorless day” to be achieved.
- Konchalovsky had been nurturing the idea of adapting Hoffmann's fairy tale for over 40 years. As early as the 1960s, he was preparing outlines for a similar film for a British director, but that film was never made.
- Alla Pugacheva participated in the voice acting of the film for the first time. She accepted the offer to voice the role of the Rat Queen, cunning and authoritative. And the voice of the Rat King went to Filipp Kirkorov. In one interview, he admitted that many of the dialogues were 'as if taken directly from real life.'
- The film's soundtrack features classical music from P.I. Tchaikovsky's ballet in a modern arrangement by composer Eduard Artemyev. Eight songs are also included, with lyrics written by Oscar winner, popular English poet and librettist Sir Tim Rice (the rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the animated films “Aladdin” and “The Lion King,” the musical “Beauty and the Beast,” and others).
- The main part of the filming took place over 15 weeks in the new pavilions of the Stern Film Studio in Hungary (near Budapest), as well as on a nearby location set where Kevin Phipps (“V for Vendetta,” “Troy,” “Band of Brothers”) recreated the atmosphere of old Vienna, paying particular attention to the facades of buildings from that era and the imitation of cobblestone streets.
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