The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
Timing:
1:45 (105 min)
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Genre
Drama, History, Comedy, Family
Budget
$17 000 000
Revenue
$8 117 668
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Niv Fichman, Vadim Jean, Ian Sharples, Susan Mullen, Robert Mickelson, Paula Mazur, Alan Moloney, Susan Coyne, Lisa Wilson, Keith Potter
Operator
Ben Smithard
Composer
Artist
Audition
Amy Hubbard
Editing
Jamie Pearson, Stephen O'Connell
All team (50)
All team (50)
Short description
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.
What's left behind the scenes
- At 87 years old, Christopher Plummer became the oldest actor to play Scrooge.
- Filming took place mainly in Ireland. In some cases, sets created for the television series «Grimm Fairy Tales» (2014-2016), which was also set in Victorian England, were used.
- Charles Dickens' family did indeed have a pet raven. The bird unexpectedly died while the family was away. Dickens once told this story to Edgar Allan Poe, who later wrote the poem “The Raven.”
- Dickens takes the novel “The Bloody Banquet” from the “Varney the Vampire” series from his maid. It is a Gothic horror story written between 1845 and 1846 by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. The novel was written as a series of weekly, inexpensive pamphlets known at the time as “penny dreadfuls.”
- Dickens’ wife is reading “Roughing It In The Wild” by Canadian writer of British origin Susanna Moodie in bed. It was first published in London in 1852, not in 1843 as indicated in the film.
- The film was shot primarily in Ireland. In some cases, sets created for the television series "Grimm" (2014-2016), which was also set in Victorian England, were used.
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