The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
With Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown, Ludmilla Tchérina, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, Frederick Ashton, Edmond Audran, Edmond Audran
Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Tales of Hoffmann is a 1951 British Technicolor comic opera film written, produced and directed by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger working under the umbrella of their production company The Archers. It is an adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's 1881 opera The Tales of Hoffmann, itself based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann.
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