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The Tales of Hoffmann

7.2 127 mins Music   Fantasy   Romance   1951
Vega Film Productions   The Archers  
Director(s): Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger

Release Date: 04 Wed, Apr 1951

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

Casts of The Tales of Hoffmann

Moira Shearer

as Stella / Olympia

Ludmilla Tchérina

as Giulietta

Pamela Brown

as Niklaus

Léonide Massine

as Spalanzani / Schlemil / Franz

Ann Ayars

as Antonia

Robert Helpmann

as Lindorf / Coppelius / Dapertutto / Dr. Miracle

Frederick Ashton

as Kleinsach / Cochenille

Robert Rounseville

as Hoffmann

Mogens Wieth

as Crespel

Lionel Harris

as Pitichinaccio

Philip Leaver

as Andrés

Meinhart Maur

as Luther

Edmond Audran

as Partner to Stella in Dragonfly Ballet

Sir Thomas Beecham

as Self - Conductor (uncredited)

Alan Carter

as Casher (Act 1) (uncredited)

Elizabeth Christie

as Corps de Ballet (uncredited)

John Ford

as Nathanaël (uncredited)

Richard Golding

as Hermann - Prologue and Epilogue (uncredited)

Lillemor Knudsen

as Dancer (uncredited)

Barry Lowe

as Student (uncredited)

Arthur Skinner

as Man in Background (uncredited)

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