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Summary:

Based on Jacques Offenbach's opera of the stories of romantic poet E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann gave close collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger another opportunity to eschew realism and celebrate artifice and creativity. 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 for 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.

Author/Creator:

Powell, Michael, 1905-1990 , screenwriter

Contributors:

Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988 , screenwriter

Arundell, Dennis, 1898-1988 , translator

Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The tales of Hoffman [1951]: continuity script [by Powell, M.]

Related Works:

Contes d'Hoffmann (Libretto) [by Barbier, J.]

Tales of Hoffmann (Motion picture : 1951)

Subjects:

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822 — Drama

Man-woman relationships — Drama

Operas — Film adaptations

Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822

Man-woman relationships

Genres:

Screenplays

Film adaptations

Drama

Operas

General Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed April 06, 2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (73 pages)

OCLC Numbers:

947110499

Other Control Numbers:

3153864 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3153864/afso