Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is a 2007 animated holiday themed fantasy comedy direct-to-video film starring "Tom and Jerry" produced by Warner Bros.
 Animation and directed by Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone.
 It is loosely based on the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann, with Jerry in the role of the Nutcracker, while Tom played one of the King Mouse's (who, in this version, is replaced with a cat) henchmen.
Care Bears Nutcracker Suite is the third and final television film to feature the Care Bears characters.
 Produced by the Canadian animation studio Nelvana, it is loosely based on the "Nutcracker" ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (adapted in turn from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King").
 It was directed by Joseph Sherman and Laura Shepherd, and produced by Nelvana's founders: Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith.
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.
"The Fisherman and His Wife" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale no. 19.
 It is Aarne–Thompson type 555, the fisherman and his wife.
 Its theme was used in "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", an 1833 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin.
 Virginia Woolf has her character Mrs. Ramsey in "To the Lighthouse" read a version of the story to her son, James.
 Günter Grass's 1977 novel, "The Flounder," is loosely based on the fairy tale, as are Emanuele Luzzati's version, "Punch and the Magic Fish," and Ursula LeGuin's novel "The Lathe of Heaven".
The Nuttiest Nutcracker is a 1999 direct-to-video Christmas film loosely based on the classic tale "The Nutcracker", directed by Harold Harris, starring the voices of Jim Belushi, Cheech Marin, and Phyllis Diller.
 This film tells about a group of fruit and veggies trying to help the Nutcracker's army get a star up on a Christmas tree before midnight, and stop a rodent army from destroying Christmas.
 The film was released on home video by Columbia TriStar Home Video in 1999.
 The film aired on CBS December 4, 1999.
 The film was also shown on cable.
Indian Nutcracker is an adaptation of the famous story of Nutcracker into South Indian Classical Dance Form called Kuchipudi.
 The Dance Drama entitled Swapna Vijayam, is produced, directed and choreographed by "Sasikala Penumarthi", who is the Founder / Director of the Academy of "Kuchipudi" Dance, , which was established in 1997 as an Atlanta, Georgia based non-profit organization.
 The story of Nutcracker is adapted into Telugu Language, with Lyrics provided by the well-known writer Indraganti Srikantha Sarma from Hyderabad, India.
 Music for this performance is composed by a popular singer from the Atlanta area, Subhashini Krishnamurthy and the Dance Choreography is by Sasikala Penumarthi, student of Padmabhushan Guru Vempati Chinna Satyam of Kuchipudi Arts Academy,  Chennai, India.
 Sasikala is assisted by two of her senior students Indira and Reneeta Basu.
 The Dance Performance will be presented on Saturday, December 15, 2007 at the Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech.
 , to raise funds for the Emory University Telugu Initiative.
 The performance will be presented with live orchestral support from Sujatha Rayburn (Female Vocal), Satish Menon (Male Vocal), Sastry Bhagavatula (Nattuvangam or Beat), Suresh Kodandaraman (Mridangam or Drum), V.K. Raman (Flute), Sandhya Srinath (Violin), Seshu Sarma (Veena), Subra Vishwanathan (Mridangam or Drum).
 More than 35 artists who have trained at the Academy of Kuchipudi Dance will be performing on stage, with more than 15 artists having over a decade of experience.
 Stage Direction will be provided by Dr. P.V. Rao, Professor in Physics, Emory University and Ravi Penumarthi, Manager, Systems Development, Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company.
 The fundraising committee is led by Prof. Joyce Flueckiger, incoming Director of the Program of South Asian Studies, Emory University.
The Nutcracker Prince is a 1990 Canadian animated romantic fantasy film made by Lacewood Productions and released by Warner Bros.
 Pictures.
 It was directed by Paul Schibli.
 The film was based on the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E. T. A. Hoffmann and also influenced by its ballet adaptation "The Nutcracker".
 Tchaikovsky's music to that ballet is used as the main instrumental soundtrack.
 The film centers on a young man named Hans who is transformed into a nutcracker by mice, and can only break the spell if he slays the Mouse King and wins the heart of a girl named Clara.
 The film features the voice talents of Kiefer Sutherland as Hans (The Nutcracker), Megan Follows as Clara, Mike MacDonald as the evil Mouseking, Peter O'Toole as Pantaloon, an old soldier, Phyllis Diller as the Mousequeen, and Peter Boretski as Uncle Drosselmeier.
Nutcracker Fantasy (くるみ割り人形 , Kurumiwari Ningyō , lit.
 The Nutcracker) is a Japanese stop motion animated film produced by Sanrio, very loosely based on Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" and E.T.A. Hoffman's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King".
 It is directed by Takeo Nakamura and written by Shintaro Tsuji, Eugene A. Fournier and Thomas Joachim.
 It is officially released in Japan on March 3, 1979 and later in the United States in July 6, 1979.
 The film is nominated for the 1980 Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film and the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Motion Picture featuring youth and won the 1980 Young Artist Award for Best Musical Entertainment.
Barbie in the Nutcracker is a 2001 computer animated direct-to-video Barbie film directed by Owen Hurley and Nishpeksh Mehra.
 It was the first Barbie film since 1987's "".
 It is also the first in the Barbie film series of computer animated Barbie films, all of which feature the voice of Kelly Sheridan as the Barbie.
 The story is loosely adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and music based from Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker".
"The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (German: "Nussknacker und Mausekönig" ) is a story written in 1816 by German author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls.
 In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story into the ballet "The Nutcracker", which became one of Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions, and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world.

Question: Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale is loosely based on a story by a man who had what nationality? 
Answer: German