Nutcracker and the Mouse King (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Nutcracker and Mouse King |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | about 60 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frank Stoye |
| script |
Thomas Brück , Tiina Takkula |
| production |
Kirsten Lukaczik , Katharina Wagner |
| music |
Tobias Kuhn Markus Perner |
| camera | Bernd Fischer |
| cut | Friederike Weymar |
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Nutcracker and Mouse King is a German fairy tale film from 2015, which was produced by MDR and Radio Bremen as part of the ARD series Six in One Stroke . It is based on the story of the same name by ETA Hoffmann .
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Christmas presents from Medical Councilor Karl Stahlbaum in the living room. The already big daughter Marie gets a white edible sugar doll and a not very attractive dress, the little son Fritz gets a sword and soldiers figures including a cannon. To the mother's annoyance, a mouse is running around the house. Uncle Anselmus Drosselmeier appears, whom Fritz can already see outside. He brings a sugar country with him as a gift: a box with a kind of stage, full of beautiful mechanical sugar figures, a sugar fairy in the middle. Now Marie finds another wooden nutcracker under the Christmas tree, which the uncle already knows, but which Fritz unfortunately damages right away: He tries to crack a cannonball that the nutcracker teeth cannot withstand; in shock he drops the nutcracker, which rips off one arm in the process. Marie puts the nutcracker in the showcase, where the soldiers' figures are also stored; there she considers him safe. Uncle Anselmus has to admit in conversation that his nephew Friedrich has still been missing since the war, but he thinks he will soon find him again.
The following night, Marie wakes up restlessly from low noises, goes back into the living room to the nutcracker, the mouse follows her; When it strikes twelve, the uncle is reflected in the clock, and suddenly many more mice follow, but you can no longer see them immediately or afterwards when suddenly a big boy with a crown stands up in the room and with a fighting stick in of the hand. He approaches her roughly and asks about the nutcracker. This begins to move. As the ruffian becomes more and more threatening, the Nutcracker also turns into a big boy, still dressed as a Nutcracker. Both boys abuse each other and fight. Although the nutcracker's arm was torn off, he is capable of sword fighting. Apparently they know each other, because the Nutcracker calls his opponent Mauserinks, and he now calls himself King Mauserinks. To mock his opponent, the nutcracker calls the soldiers figures from Fritz for help, who can "only" move slightly. Marie, however, helps him by throwing her slipper at Mauserinks. Then she faints.
The next morning when the butler comes, she is still there, but wakes up when her mother calls. She got a fever. The nutcracker is still there, it has its small shape again as a damaged wooden figure, but Mauserinks can no longer be seen. So of course nobody believes Marie this strange adventure. Uncle Anselmus soon comes to visit again and tells a fairy tale: The king was celebrating a festival in a distant kingdom, but the mouse queen Mauserinks and her seven sons ate away the bacon that would have been necessary for the sausage beforehand. The court inventor, known as Drosselmeier, managed to kill the older six of the mouser's sons. In revenge, the Mouse Queen transformed the previously beautiful Princess Pirlipat into an ugly figure. Years later, a youth from the sugar country succeeded in transforming her back, for which the king promised him her hand.
When Uncle Anselmus has told us so far, Marie's father interrupts him with the remark, "All's well that ends well". But when Marie remains alone with Uncle Anselmus for a moment, she wants to hear the story to the end: Then the young man accidentally stepped on the mouse queen, but she was able to take revenge again while dying: She turned him into a nutcracker. Since the young man had become a nutcracker, the princess could not and would not keep to the fact that she had been promised him as a bride for her redemption, and she banished him and the inventor. Marie calls that ungrateful when her uncle tells it. Now it is finally clear to her: The first of the mice in this house is none other than the last son of the Mouse Queen, and he is also the crowned insolent boy, in transformation; and the damaged nutcracker is the one from the fairy tale.
The next night the crowned boy appears again, this time right at Marie's bed. He gets rough again, wakes her with his pointed metal finger and demands the nutcracker. Marie does not reveal where this has gone today. She says she didn't do anything to the ruffian, but he resents her throwing slippers because it made the nutcracker escape him. He makes no secret of the fact that he wants to destroy it. Out of anger, he eats the white sugar doll, which is a shame, and then vanishes into thin air. Marie goes back to the showcase, where she can no longer find the nutcracker herself.
The next morning the butler finds her on the floor again, this time she wakes up when her father calls. He explains: Uncle Anselmus took the nutcracker home with him, where he repairs it, with a small sword lying next to it.
At the next midnight Marie wakes up restlessly again, and then the rascal appears again in front of her bed and demands the nutcracker, again she does not give in to him. She is no longer so scared. This time, as a punishment, he tears up a book from her shelf that her mother gave her for her twelfth birthday with a dedication; and again it dissolves into thin air. This time Fritz heard it, but came too late and still didn't believe Marie.
The uncle brings the nutcracker back safely. When asked by Marie's father, he still cannot say what happened to his missing nephew Friedrich. Marie explains the dangerous situation to him in private, but he still doesn't believe her or at least pretends to be.
Marie spends the next midnight in the living room right away, and once again Grobian Mauserinks appears with his fighting stick and the nutcracker is transformed like at the previous encounter. Although he has two healthy arms again, his situation has become even more threatening because he no longer has a sword at hand. However, this time Fritz wakes up due to the noise, is no longer surprised and gives the threatened man his sword. During the renewed battle, the nutcracker manages to tear the crown off the enemy's head, which immediately dissolves, so that Mauserinks becomes a mouse again. With this the nutcracker is saved and leads Marie gratefully into the sugar land, the sugar figure box. All figures are now alive, and the sugar fairy thanks Marie for saving the sugar land and the nutcracker, who can now remain human again. Marie and he fall in love. Afterwards, Marie is back in her bed and the nutcracker is gone.
The next morning, this time it is Fritz whom the butler finds on the floor in the living room. He too wakes up quickly when the adults arrive. But he's fine and Marie is well again. Now she puts on the new dress. On his next visit, Uncle Anselmus brings his nephew Friedrich, who has reappeared, with him: he is the redeemed nutcracker. Marie only asks him if he wants to stay long, but he replies that he doesn't know yet and that he might stay forever.
background
The film was shot from March 10 to 27, 2015 in Saxony-Anhalt and Bremen. The TV premiere took place on December 25, 2015.
The film was nominated for the 52nd Grimme Prize in 2016 .
Film music
The film music by Tobias Kuhn and Marcus Perner was recorded by the MDR Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dominik Beykirch .
Web links
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse King in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nutcracker and Mouse King at the Berlin-Brandenburg radio station
Individual evidence
- ^ A b MDR and Radio Bremen are filming "Nutcracker and Mouse King" . RBB, accessed October 4, 2015.
- ^ MDR and Radio Bremen filmed "Nutcracker and Mouse King". ( Memento of March 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) MDR, accessed on October 4, 2015.
- ↑ Nutcracker and Mouse King at fernsehserien.de. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
- ↑ Six in one go: Nutcracker and Mouse King (RBB / MDR / RB) . Archive. Retrieved on February 28, 2020.
