The Nutcracker Cartoon on the fairy tale of Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky's ballet.

Cartoon on the fairy tale of Hoffmann and Tchaikovsky's ballet. About how a king and queen first child was born, everyone was invited to the feast, and the evil witch mouse forgotten. She did not forgive them this, and bewitched the palace, and the heir turned into a nutcracker. And so he decorated the Christmas tree for Bhagat children, and after the holiday, when the poor girl was cleaning the hall, she saw and fell in love with the nutcracker. Together they defeated the evil sorceress and he became a handsome prince, and his wife took the poor girl, who also became a princess. Cartoon production of "Soyuzmultfilm". Directed by: Boris Stepantsev 1973.

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, transcribed as Schelkunchik) is a 1973 Soviet/Russian animated film from the Soyuzmultfilm studio directed by Boris Stepantsev and based partly on Pyotr Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker, but more closely on E.T.A. Hoffmann's novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the story which inspired the ballet.