

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.
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
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