The Nutcraker / Schelkunchik . 1973 ( USSR )

Peter Tchaikovsky . The Nutcraker . Enjoy ! Peter Tschaikowsky . Nussknacker . 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 . Hoffmann’s novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the story which inspired the ballet.