In 1920s Vienna, a young girl receives a magical doll on Christmas Eve.
Production
Sets so elaborate they bankrupt the emotional coherence.
Costume
Rat King looks like he raided Tim Burton's rejected sketches.
Acting
Elle Fanning acts circles around everyone while trapped in this fever dream.
Director
Andrei Konchalovsky
Elle Fanning
Mary
Nathan Lane
Uncle Albert
John Turturro
The Rat King
Frances de la Tour
The Rat Queen / Frau Eva
Charlie Rowe
The Prince / Nicholas Charles
Richard E. Grant
Father
Yuliya Vysotskaya
Mother / The Snow Fairy
Jonny Coyne
Gnomad
Shirley Henderson
The Nutcracker (voice)
Fernanda Dorogi
Dr. Freud's Niece
Dániel Mogács
Trolley Bus Orchestra Conductor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Konchalovsky's 3D experiment was a commercial disaster that killed the holiday ballet film for a decade; Russia's biggest box office bomb of 2010.
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