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Tales of Hoffmann (1916)

Tales of Hoffmann (1916)

Drama Fantasy
Release Date: 1916, February 26
Directors: Richard Oswald
Countries: Germany
Production: Lothar Stark-Film
Cast: Werner Krauß, Lupu Pick, Friedrich Kühne, Ferdinand Bonn, Alice Hechy, Kurt Wolowsky, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Käte Oswald, Louis Neher, Max Ruhbeck, Thea Sandten, Ernst Ludwig

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.