Year: 1951
Genre:
Romance, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,4 (NEVAZUT)
Country: UK
Language:
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer: Dennis Arundell, Jules Barbier, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Michel Carré
Producer: George R. Busby, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Actors: 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, Thomas Beecham, Alan Carter, Elizabeth Christie, John Ford, Richard Golding, Barry Lowe, Arthur Skinner
Description: This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & 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.
Comments:
Duration: 138 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\04701 - The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)\The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).cd1.avi|Z:\04701 - The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)\The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).cd2.avi
Filesize: 1395 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 608x448
Audio:
Subtitles: English