Overview - Tales of Hoffmann

Overview

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

• Name: Kurt Wolowsky

  Character: junger Hoffmann

  Popularity: 0.1869

  

• Name: Max Ruhbeck

  Character: Onkel

  Popularity: 0.4688

  

• Name: Paula Ronay

  Character: Tante

  Popularity: 0.2152

  

• Name: Werner Krauss

  Character: Conte Dapertutto

  Popularity: 0.5216

  

• Name: Friedrich Kühne

  Character: Coppelius, Brillenhändler

  Popularity: 0.4646

  

• Name: Lupu Pick

  Character: Spalanzani, Direktor eines Museums

  Popularity: 0.3174

  

• Name: Ernst Ludwig

  Character: Rat Crespel

  Popularity: 0.4807

  

• Name: Nelly Ridon

  Character: Frau Rat Crespel

  Popularity: 0.1795