Tales of Hoffmann (The)
Original Title
Los cuentos de Hoffman- Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
- Writer: Dennis Arundell, Jules Barbier, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Michel Carré, E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Producer: George R. Busby, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
CGiii Comment
You Will Never See Anything Finer On The Screen!
This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera dramatises the three great romances in the life of the poet-hero presented in a series of flashbacks. Hoffmann's tales depict the struggle between human love and the artist's dedication to his work. Hoffmann loses each of the women he loves but gains instead poetic inspiration -- the ability to transform painful experiences into art.
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Cast & Characters
Moira Shearer
Ludmilla Tchérina
Ann Ayars
Pamela Brown
Léonide Massine
Robert Helpmann
Frederick Ashton
Mogens Wieth
Robert Rounseville
Lionel Harris
Philip Leaver
Meinhart Maur
Edmond Audran
Dorothy Bond
Margherita Grandi
Monica Sinclair
Joan Alexander
Grahame Clifford
Bruce Dargavel
Murray Dickie
Owen Brannigan
Fisher Morgan
Rene Soames
Thomas Beecham
Alan Carter