07 Dec 2023
World's First Christmas
A young girl wishes Christmas was over for good, and her wish is granted with unexpected consequences.
The Man Who Invented Christmas
How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Dan Stevens Charles Dickens
Christopher Plummer Scrooge
Jonathan Pryce Mr. John Dickens
Justin Edwards John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present
Morfydd Clark Kate Dickens
Donald Sumpter Haddock / Ghost of Marley
Miles Jupp Thackeray
Simon Callow Leech
Miriam Margolyes Mrs. Fisk
Ian McNeice Chapman
Bill Paterson Mr. Grimsby
John Henshaw Butcher / Mr. Fezziwig
Annette Badland Butcher's Wife / Mrs. Fezziwig
Katie McGuinness Fanny Dickens / Mrs. Cratchit
Pearse Kearney Henry Jr. / Tiny Tim
Ger Ryan Mrs. Dickens
Marcus Lamb Rev. Henry Burnett / Mr. Cratchit
Cosimo Fusco Signor Mazzini
Anna Murphy Tara / Ghost of Christmas Past
Ely Solan Young Charles
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