The tales of Hoffmann

9781681439440

1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
digital optical
video file DVD video

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Title on container : Powell and Pressburger's The tales of Hoffmann
Title on title screen : Jacques Offenbach's The tales of Hoffmann

Accompanied by folded sheet (12 pages) containing an an essay by film historian Ian Christie
Adaptation of the opera The tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach
Full screen (1.37:1)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951
Special features: audio commentary from 1992 by filmmaker Martin Scorsese and critic Bruce Eder, newly updated by Eder; interview with filmmaker George A. Romero from 2005; The sorcerer's apprentice (1956), a short musical film based on the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe story and directed by Michael Powell; collection of production designer Hein Heckroth's design sketches and paintings; gallery of production and publicity photographs; trailer; an essay by film historian Ian Christie
Original French lyrics by Jules Barbier; conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sadler's Wells Chorus; photographed by Christopher Challis; edited by Reginald Mills; choreography by Frederick Ashton
Acting cast: Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tcherina, Ann Ayars, Pamela Brown, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Mogens Wieth, Robert Rounseville; singing cast: Robert Rounseville, Dorothy Bond, Margherita Grandi, Ann Ayars, Monica Sinclair, Joan Alexander, Grahame Clifford, Bruce Dargavel, Murray Dickie, Owen Brannigan, Fisher Morgan, Rene Soames
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A; monaural
In English

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Alexander, Joan (Mezzo-soprano), singer
Arundell, Dennis, 1898-1988, librettist
Ashton, Frederick, 1904-1988, actor, dancer, choreographer
Ayars, Ann, actor, singer
Barbier, Jules, 1825-1901, lyricist
Beecham, Thomas, 1879-1961, conductor
Bond, Dorothy, 1921-1952, singer
Brannigan, Owen, singer
Brown, Pamela, 1917-1975, actor
Challis, Christopher, cinematographer
Clifford, Grahame, singer
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Dargavel, Bruce, singer
Dickie, Murray, 1924-1995, singer
Grandi, Margherita, 1892-1972, singer
Helpmann, Robert, Sir, 1909-1986, actor
London Films, presenter
Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979, actor, dancer
Mills, Reginald, 1912-1990, editor of moving image work
Morgan, Fisher, 1908-1959, singer
Motion picture adaptation of (work) : Offenbach, Jacques, 1819-1880. Contes d'Hoffmann. English
Powell, Michael, 1905-1990, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Pressburger, Emeric, 1902-1988, film director, film producer, screenwriter
Rounseville, Robert, actor, singer
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, musician
Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus, musician
Shearer, Moira, 1926-2006, actor
Sinclair, Monica, 1925-2002, singer
Soames, René, singer
Tcherina, Ludmila, actor, dancer
Wieth, Mogens, 1919-1962, actor