The Nutcracker Prince
| Movie | |
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| German title | The Nutcracker Prince |
| Original title | The Nutcracker Prince |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paul Schibli |
| script | Patricia Watson |
| production | Kevin Gillis |
| music | Victor Davies |
| cut | Sue Robertson |
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The Nutcracker Prince is a Canadian cartoon from 1990 based on ETA Hoffmann's art fairy tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King . The music from Tchaikovsky's suite The Nutcracker was also included in this film .
action
On Christmas Eve , Klara Stahlbaum and her brother Fritz visit the watchmaker and toy manufacturer Drosselmeyer, whom they affectionately call "Uncle Drosselmeyer". On this occasion Drosselmeyer mentions that he is working on a present for his nephew Hans. In anticipation of the surprise he will bring, the two children return home.
When Drosselmeyer comes to the Stahlbaum family in the evening, he reveals his surprise: the mechanically equipped miniature version of a lock. Among the gifts and toys, Klara also finds a nutcracker that interests her, and at Klara's request Drosselmeyer tells the story of the nutcracker prince: In one kingdom, the king wanted a cheesecake (made from real cheese ) for his birthday party , which the queen had just finished when the Mouse Queen, her son and all the mice in the castle appeared and attacked the cake. The angry king therefore ordered his court magician Drosselmeyer and his nephew and apprentice Hans to end the mouse plague.
Drosselmeyer succeeded in this task; however, he did not get the queen and her son, who swore vengeance on it. Using black magic , the Mouse Queen cursed the Princess Pirliphat and turned her into an ugly witch. But Drosselmeyer found a cure: a young man who was not wearing boots should open an unbreakable nut for the princess and give her to eat. Of all the candidates, only Hans was able to open the nut and break the curse; thereupon the mouse queen cursed Hans in the shape of a nutcracker, but was killed by an accident. Her son swore revenge on Hans (less because of his mother's death, but because his own tail had been damaged by the misfortune) and crowned himself King of the Mice.
During the night Klara sneaks into the living room and back to the nutcracker, but there she meets Drosselmeyer as a ghost sitting on the clock and then the Mouse King and his army. Drosselmeyer brings all the dolls and toys to life - including the elderly doll Trudi, Klara's new doll Marie and the old soldier Pantaloon - as well as the nutcracker, and a battle begins. When the Mouse King is about to put an end to the Nutcracker, Klara removes one of her new dancing shoes from her foot, throws it at the Mouse King and brings him down. But immediately afterwards she slips, bangs her head against the clock and passes out.
The next morning, Klara has to stay in bed with a head injury. When Drosselmeyer comes to visit, Klara reproaches him for having put the nutcracker in danger, but Drosselmeyer explains that only Klara could solve his curse. The very same night the mouse king returns and demands the nutcracker from Klara. Klara tries to get the Nutcracker to safety, but is intercepted by the Mouse King. Drosselmeyer brings the dolls back to life, and Klara equips the nutcracker with Pantaloon's sword. A duel breaks out between the two, which ends with the Nutcracker's victory, but Pantaloon was injured while trying to help the Nutcracker and can only be healed in Dollland. After Drosselmeyer has shrunk Klara with a spell, she joins the Nutcracker, Trudi, Marie and Pantaloon and travels with them to the doll's castle.
Once at the castle, the nutcracker proposes to Klara, but Klara is unsure because she is still attached to her old world. The dolls become lifeless again, and then Klara is attacked by the Mouse King, who is critically wounded but still has the strength to pursue her. When attempting to kill Klara, however, the mouse king falls into the castle's lemonade lake and ends there. When Klara wants to go back to the Nutcracker, fog rises in the hall and makes everything disappear.
Klara abruptly wakes up in her own bed. Worried about the nutcracker, which she has grown very fond of, she rushes into the living room, but no longer finds the nutcracker there. Frightened, she rushes to Drosselmeyer and begs him to tell her what happened to the nutcracker when his nephew Hans, the now disenchanted nutcracker, enters the workshop. When Hans greets Klara, she realizes that none of this was a dream after all, and she greets Hans lovingly as a nutcracker.
criticism
“Much closer to Hoffmann's story than the famous ballet version based on Tchaikovsky's music, but also often sweet rather than romantic. Drawing on a high standard and very humorous in the action scenes "
Web links
- The Nutcracker Prince in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Nutcracker Prince at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Nutcracker Prince. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 4, 2016 .