Showroom Classics: Tales of Hoffmann U
Showing as part of Showroom Classics
Metropolitan opera star Robert Rounseville plays Hoffmann, a university student who is spectacularly unlucky in affairs of the heart. Each of his love affairs with Olympia (Moira Shearer), an animated doll, Venetian courtesan Giulietta (Ludmilla Tcherina) and singer's daughter Antonia (Ann Ayars) is doomed to failure due to circumstances far beyond our hero's control. The entire film is shaped by Offenbach's score, given a rousing rendition by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of the legendary Sir Thomas Beecham.
This edition of The Tales of Hoffmann has been beautifully restored in 4k, supervised by Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell and Ned Price.
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- Director
- Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
- Year
- 1951
- Duration
- 128 mins
- Language
- English
- Cast
- Pamela Brown, Robert Helpmann, Robert Rounseville
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