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Director
  
Richard Oswald

Country
  
Germany

6.6/10
IMDb

Language
  
Silent with German intertitles

Writer
  
Fritz Friedmann-Frederich
,
de
,
E. T. A. Hoffmann

Release date
  
25 February 1916 (1916-02-25)

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama, Black-and-white

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Tales of Hoffman (German: ) is a 1916 silent German drama film directed by Richard Oswald.

Contents

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer and judge E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). While Hoffmann's literary work was longtime considered to be merely fantastical, it was finally researched, in the last years, according to its metaphysical background. Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques only described in the works of Bachtin and Bachelard.

Cast

  • Kurt Wolowsky as young Hoffmann
  • Max Ruhbeck as Uncle
  • Paula Ronay as Aunt
  • Werner Krauss as Conte Dapertutto
  • Friedrich Kuhne as Coppelius, eyeglass merchant
  • Lupu Pick as Spalanzani, Museum Director
  • Ernst Ludwig as Counsillor Crespel
  • Nelly Ridon as Mrs Crespel
  • Ruth Oswald as little Antonia
  • Andreas von Horn as Dr. Mirakel
  • Erich Kaiser-Titz as E.T.A. Hoffmann
  • Ferdinand Bonn as Municipal Counsillor Lindorf
  • Kate Oswald as Actress
  • Alice Hechy as Olympia, Automaton (as Alice Scheel-Hechy)
  • Thea Sandten as Giulietta
  • Louis Neher as Schlemihl
  • Ressel Orla
  • Richard Oswald

    • Preservation status

    An incomplete print is held in the collection of the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation.

    References

    Tales of Hoffman (film) Wikipedia
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    Tales of Hoffman (film) IMDb Tales of Hoffman (film) themoviedb.org