Film-ballet The Nutcracker (with Artists of the New York City Ballet Troupe), directed by Emile Ardolino (USA, 1993). Full-HD

«The Nutcracker», also known as «George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker», is a 1993 American Christmas musical film based on Peter Martins’s stage production of «The Nutcracker» and directed by Emile Ardolino. Based on the Christmas fairy tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann «The Nutcracker and the Mouse King» (German: «Nußknacker und Mausekönig») published in the collection «Children’s Fairy Tales» (Berlin, 1816). Written by Susan Cooper (narration) Cinematography: Ralf D. Bode Produced by Robert Hurwitz, Robert A. Krasnow Kevin Kline as Narrator Starring: Darci Kistler as The Sugar Plum Fairy Damian Woetzel as The Sugar Plum Fairy’s Cavalier Kyra Nichols as Dewdrop Bart Robinson Cook as Herr Drosselmeyer Macaulay Culkin as The Nutcracker/Prince/Drosselmeyer’s Nephew Jessica Lynn Cohen as Marie Stahlbaum Artists of the New York City Ballet Troupe Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by George Balanchine