The Nutcracker | Bolshoi Ballet

The Nutcracker | Bolshoi Ballet

(Louskáček | Bolšoj balet), Jurij Grigorovič / RUS, 2010
135 min

Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich according to Marius Petipa
Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker, ballet symbol of Christmas season, is a fairytale based on a novelette by E.T.A. Hoffmann about a girl Maria and her Christmas gift – the Nutcracker. In Maria’s fantasy the Nutcracker turns into a handsome prince.