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The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol” and created a tradition.

Where to watch

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Cast

Dan Stevens as Charles Dickens; Christopher Plummer as Scrooge; Jonathan Pryce as Mr. John Dickens; Justin Edwards as John Forster / Ghost of Christmas Present; Morfydd Clark as Kate Dickens; Donald Sumpter as Haddock / Ghost of Marley; Miles Jupp as Thackeray; Simon Callow as Leech

About The Man Who Invented Christmas

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.

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