The Tales of Hoffmann official HD trailer

A stunning 4K restoration of The Tales of Hoffmann returns to UK cinemas from 27 February 2015.

Starring Moira Shearer, Powell and Pressburger’s dazzling take on Jacques Offenbach’s 1881 opera brings together some of the greatest film, music and dance talents of the period. This stunning restoration contains previously unseen footage and is sure to astonish audiences on its return to the big screen.

Restored by The Film Foundation and the BFI National Archive in association with STUDIOCANAL. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a unique partnership between the Directors Guild of America (DGA); the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA); the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique (SACEM); and the Writers Guild of America West (WGAW), The Film Foundation, and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.

[sylaslong]

Whoever put this trailer together clearly watched this movie at least 7 times.

[WalterLiddy]

You always hear about The Red Shoes, but this entire movie has the imagination and brilliance that went into The Red Shoes' best sequences. IMO it's the superior work.

[jamesanderson]

Moira Shearer and Ludmilla Tcherina are sublime in these movie absolute class and beauty

[telephilia]

I first saw this as a child on a little black and white TV. Even without the big screen or color and not an adult I was enthralled.

[MelloGee]

Apparently, directors George Romero ("Night of the Living Dead") and Martin Scorsese were both huge fans of this film. Interesting. This flick somehow flew under the radar with us regular folk.

[BytomGirl]

I have the DVD, the quality is incredible, love it. Love Moira and good to see Leonid Massine

[sschmid]

Martin Scorsese's Favorite Film he use to rent as a child. So cool to know that. The winding up of the ballerina doll reminds me of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

[esterbalbi]

great opera and ballet, And great Moira Shearer

[memory-nownow-anticipation]

This movie is more trippy than a good Pink Floyd record- if you've never seen it.

[jacobjackson]

I cannot wait to see the new restoration. They added 10 minutes of unreleased footage back into the film that was cut before the world premiere.

[lorenzfreimann]

Trudno mi uwierzyć, że tak wspaniale odtworzono OPOWIEŚCI HOFFMANA zrodzone w studiu angielskim w 1951 roku.
Zachwycające, przepiękne i bajeczne - CUDO które obejrzałem dziś po raz pierwszy 27.12.2023 r.

[esterbalbi]

gorgeus movie, gorgeus Moira Shearer!

[andreasclausen-dreher]

Klasse, The Tales of Hoffmann, von Powell und Pressbuger..💗💗💗 Love 💗💗💗

[TimChuma]

One of my favourite purchases of 2015 and I bought a lot of movies.

[jamescleveland]

The first operatic movie I seen as a kid late 1940s early 1950s

[longjohnsilver]

I watched this film for the first time when I was 8 years old. It ´s so perfectly fantastic that it´s almost real

[ThreeblindmiceStillofus]

Tales of hoffmann is the musical fantasy of all.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[tyrannosaurusburke]

I'm almost 40. Where has this movie been all my life?

[corinnefordschmid]

Dorothy Bond was the "voice" of Moira Shearer in this film so I wonder if that is her singing. Amazing!

[CountessMaryaZaleska]

From a time when Britain actually had a proper national film industry with artists that made real films that had an obvious aesthetic and cinematic value. Films that were cherished and exported all over the world. Successive governments just gradually sucked all the life and the money out of that wonderful era — until all that was left by the mid 1980's —was a tiny cottage *_'TV movie'_* industry — and even that had to take regular financial blood transfusions from the likes of *_Channel 4_* in order to make anything at all.
_Gainsborough, Ealing, Hammer, etc_ — all no more. FIlms like: _Black Narcissus, Peeping Tom, Witchfinder General, Performance, The Devils, A Clockwork Orange, The Wicker Man etc._ Where are all their transgressive equivalents in todays British 'Cinema'? They are no where... that's where.
The *_'industry'_* we're left with now is a just national shame by any comparison to all that.