The story has been adapted numerous times, including two feature length Animated Adaptations. Marie accepts, and in a year he takes her to the doll kingdom, where she is crowned queen.Ī fan translation of Hoffmann's original fairy tale can be found here. This breaks the curse, and he asks her to marry him. However, Marie goes to her nutcracker in the cabinet and vows she would love him if he were real, even if he were ugly. When she tries to tell her parents, they think she's dreamed the entire thing and forbid her to speak of it again. After taking a grand tour, Marie falls asleep and wakes up in her own bed. With the help of young Marie Stahlbaum, the nutcracker is eventually able to overcome his foe (the queen's vengeful seven-headed son), regain his true form, and take Marie to the doll kingdom. This nutcracker turns out to be more than he seems he's really Drosselmeier's nephew transformed by a mouse queen's evil curse. The Stahlbaum children are given a toy nutcracker for Christmas from their godfather Drosselmeier. The ballet has also been made into various screen adaptations, mostly animated. Щелкунчик, Shchelkunchik) from the frequently staged ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the musical suite derived therefrom, and from that suite's use in Disney's Fantasia. Hoffmann, but you probably know it by its shorter title: The Nutcracker (Rus. Nußknacker und Mausekönig) is a 1816 Fairy Tale by E. 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King' (Ger.

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