Tales of Hoffmann

Name: Tales of Hoffmann
Director: Richard Oswald
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Released: 1916
Duration: 1 h 7 min
Cast: Kurt Wolowsky, Max Ruhbeck, Paula Ronay, Werner Krauss, Friedrich Kühne

1916 Fantasy Drama 67 minutes Directed by Richard Oswald

About Tales of Hoffmann

Richard Oswald's silent film follows Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann. Kurt von Wolowsky plays Hoffmann young, and Erich Kaiser-Titz plays E. T. A. Hoffmann. The billed parts cover the opera's stories: Coppelius and the automaton Olympia, Giulietta, and Dr. Mirakel with Antonia.

Cast & crew

More about Tales of Hoffmann

Richard Oswald directed, produced, and wrote it with Fritz Friedmann-Frederich. The German title is Hoffmanns Erzählungen. It opened on February 25, 1916.

Themes

Hoffmann as a young man
An automaton passed off as a woman
Giulietta
Antonia and Dr. Mirakel
Offenbach
Olympia
Coppelius
Antonia
Hoffmann

Preservation

An incomplete print is in the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation.

Notes

Werner Krauss plays Conte Dapertutto. Friedrich Kühne plays Coppelius. Lupu Pick plays Spalanzani. Alice Hechy plays Olympia. Thea Sandten plays Giulietta. Andreas von Horn plays Dr. Mirakel.
Ernst Krohn was the cameraman.