- Award-winning adaptation of Hoffmann's classic directed by Denise Blasor with music by Laurent Eyquem and produced by Rene Heredia, explores the importance of never giving up on your dreams and having the courage to fight for what's right.
- It's Christmas Eve, at the Stahlbaum house. Marie and her brother Fritz wonder about what kind of present their godfather, the inventor Drosselmeyer, has made for them.
Marie notices a strange looking nutcracker and her father tells her that she can be his special caretaker. When it's bedtime, the children store their Christmas gifts in a glass cabinet where they keep all their toys and sweets.. Marie asks her parents to let her stay a little while longer with the nutcracker. The grandfather clock begins to chime and mice begin to come out from beneath the floorboards, including the seven-headed Mouse King.
The dolls in the toy cabinet come alive, the nutcracker takes command and leads them into battle. Marie tries to protect him, throwing her slipper at the Mouse King, but she then faints cutting her arm. Marie wakes up in her bed the next morning with her arm bandaged. She tries to tell her parents about the battle between the mice and dolls, but they don't believe her. Godfather Drosselmeyer arrives and tells the children the story of Princess Pirlipat, the Queen of mice, Drosselmeyer's nephew and the nut Crackatook. While Marie recuperates from her wound, the mouse King comes to visit her and threatens to bite her and the nutcracker to pieces if she doesn't give him her sweets and dolls. She sacrifices her toys and also gives the Nutcracker a sword to protect himself. The nutcracker kills the Mouse King and takes her to the doll kingdom, where she sees and experiences amazing things. She falls asleep and when she wakes up, she tries to tell her mother what happened, but once again she's not believed and is forbidden to speak about her "fantasy dreams" or play with the nutcracker.
She tells the Nutcracker that even though they have stopped talking she will love him forever no matter what he looks like.
There's a knock at the door. It's godfather Drosselmeyer and his nephew who has arrived from Nuremberg. He tells her that she broke the curse and made him human again and they once again visit the doll imaginary kingdom, where she is crowned queen.
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