The Nutcracker (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Nutcracker in 3D |
| Country of production | Hungary , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrei Konchalovsky |
| script | Andrei Konchalovsky Chris Solimine |
| production | Andrei Konchalovsky Paul Lowin |
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The Nutcracker (OT: The Nutcracker in 3D ) is a British 3D fantasy musical film from 2009. The film is based on motifs from the fairy tale Nutcracker and Mouse King by ETA Hoffmann and the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky . It was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky , and Elle Fanning is in the lead . The film is considered a flop in both commercial and artistic terms .
action
Vienna around 1920: Marie, around ten years old, receives a doll's house and a nutcracker from her uncle Albert for Christmas . At night the nutcracker transforms into a boy and the figures in the playhouse and in the Christmas tree under which the playhouse is located also come to life. From the top of the Christmas tree, the nutcracker shows Marie his distant hometown, which is occupied by the rat king, who has built up a fascist regime there, which among other things gets its power by burning toys. Marie helps the Nutcracker Prince in the fight against the Rat King. The two manage to defeat the Rat King, who escapes, and free the city. In the end it turns out that Marie only dreamed what happened. Uncle Albert introduces her to his neighbor boy, who looks exactly like the Nutcracker Prince.
background
- The figure of Uncle Albert is based on Albert Einstein . He is based on this optically, has the same first name and deals with the theory of relativity .
- The uniforms of the Rattenkönig regime are optically very similar to the uniforms of the Wehrmacht and other National Socialist organizations.
- With The Nutcracker , director Konchalovsky has fulfilled a wish cherished for over twenty years.
- The shooting took place in Hungary . Most of the shooting took place in Budapest and in a film studio in Pomáz .
Film music
The film music takes up the original music from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker . Director Konchalovsky, however, did not use ballet scenes in the film because, in his opinion, these "do not work well" in the film. Instead, songs of the ballet were set to music with texts by Tim Rice and sung by the actors. In addition to Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker , pieces from his 5th symphony are also used in the film.
reception
Grossing results
With a budget of $ 90 million, the film grossed $ 16,178,959 worldwide, making it a financial failure.
Reviews
The film received mostly negative reviews from the critics. Above all, the reference of the rat regime to National Socialism was displeasing.
Moviemaze.de judged, "The Nutcracker in 3D is stereotypical fantasy cinema with only a few highlights". The script is "half baked", the "analogies of the rat king to Hitler in Nazi Germany [...] resist the gesture of a hearty children's film." You search in vain for logic, the CGI effects are "loveless", it becomes "charm and Joke confused with leaden dialogues and a grimacing Nathan Lane as a child's head uncle ”.
TV Spielfilm fears that ETA Hoffmann and Peter Tchaikovsky “rotate” in the grave: “The 90 million spectacle, which is full of Nazi allusions, is unfortunately completely stupid and goes for the nuts.” She was “really horrible, this classic version”.
Theaterundfilm warns of the film's low FSK rating, which was "negligently set too low". "The allegory of Hitler's Germany is extremely creepy for children under the age of 12, when the rat king's mouth mutates into a drooling rat snout, is fired from machine guns for seconds, a post-apocalyptic world is frighteningly staged, the otherwise sultry Christmas is quickly forgotten . "
Nominations
Elle Fanning received a nomination for Best Actress at the Young Artist Awards 2011 for her performance .
The film's 3D effects were nominated for the 2011 Golden Raspberry in the Worst Use of 3-D in a Film category.
Web links
- The Nutcracker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Nutcracker at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview in Seattleweekly ( Memento of the original from December 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed December 23, 2015
- ↑ Interview , accessed on December 23, 2015 Quote: "ballet cannot work in cinema very well."
- ↑ http://www.moviemaze.de/filme/4382/der-nussknacker.html
- ↑ http://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/der-nussknacker,5790573,ApplicationMovie.html
- ↑ http://www.moviepilot.de/movies/der-nussknacker/comments
