The Nutcracker and the King of Mice

Synopsis: The story is about a girl named Marie, who receives a nutcracker in the form of a soldier on Christmas Eve. On that night, Marie attends a battle between her dolls, which come to life, under the leadership of the nutcracker, and the mice whose king has seven heads. The next day, Marie learns that the Nutcracker had been a young man before being cursed by the Mouse Queen. More battles occur between the dolls and the mice before the Nutcracker returns to what it was before. With a magical, dazzling and wonderful ending. BiographyErnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer and composer, who influenced the Romantic movement in German literature. He was born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia), the son of a lawyer. His third name was originally Wilhelm, but he later adopted Amadeus in honor of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Hoffmann studied law at the University of Königsberg but only practiced it for a short period before turning to painting, music criticism and composition. From 1814 he was in the Prussian Civil Administration in Berlin. Hoffmann is much better known as a writer. His works of fiction, combining the grotesque and the supernatural with powerful psychological realism, are among the most influential of the Romantic movement. Perhaps the most famous are the fantastic tales.