Biography
From Wikipedia. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's famous opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffman...
Complete Filmography

Большой театр: Щелкунчик
2024
Scenario Writer
Lo Schiaccianoci al Teatro alla Scala
2022
Book

The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker (2022/2023)
2022
Original Story
Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tc...

Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Tales of Hoffmann
2019
Original Story
In Luther's beer-cellar, lusty singing extols the virtues of beer and wine. For this evening, the Muse decides to deflect the poet Hoffmann's attentio...

The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
2018
Story
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downstairs to find a magical adventure awaiting her and ...

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
2018
Short Story, Creator
When Clara’s mother leaves her a mysterious gift, she embarks on a journey to four secret realms—where she discovers her greatest strength could chang...

Hoffmaniada
2018
Writer
The film will be based around three of Hoffmann's tales (Klein Zaches, The Golden Pot and The Sandman), with the main character being Hoffmann himself...

Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia
2018
Original Story
Swanhilda notices her fiancee Franz is infatuated with the beautiful Coppélia who sits reading on her balcony each day. Nearly breaking up the two swe...

Nussknacker und Mausekönig
2015
Novel
At Christmas, the young Mary receives a wonderful nutcracker that takes life. She becomes witness to his fierce struggle against the mouse king.

The Metropolitan Opera: The Tales of Hoffmann
2015
Original Story
New tenor star Vittorio Grigolo takes on the title role in Offenbach’s fantastical opera, giving a tour-de-force performance as the tortured poet unlu...

Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker
2014
Original Story
On Christmas Eve, Marie is given a wooden nutcracker as a gift. When the clock strikes midnight, the Nutcracker transforms into a prince and saves Mar...

The Nutcracker 3D
2014
Novel
This adaptation of the Nutcracker story (by Tchaikovsky and original choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov) is updated in this stop-motion anim...

Delibes: Coppélia
2014
Original Story
This interpretation of Coppélia is set in a cybernetic laboratory specialised in artificial intelligence, where Doctor Coppélius is attempting to crea...

Der Sandmann
2012
Writer
An adaption of E.T.A. Hoffmanns classic tale of horror!

Hoffmanns Erzählungen
2011
Original Story
Live performance, Bayerische Staatsoper, 2011. The Tales of Hoffmann (French: LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN) is an opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach tha...

Bolshoi Ballet: Coppélia
2011
Original Story
In this joyful version, a beautiful mechanical doll interferes with the happiness of two lovers. Original choreography by Marius Petita. New version ...

The Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker
2010
Original Story
A masterpiece of classical dance, this Nutcracker is a magical version of the score by Tchaikovsky filmed at the Bolshoi Theatre. Recorded live in Dec...

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann
2009
Original Story
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.

Salzburg Marionette Theatre: The Nutcracker
2009
Story
On Christmas Eve, the parents of Clara and Fritz have invited guests. Among them is Clara’s godfather Drosselmeyer, who presents her with a nutcracker...
Nutcracker: The Story of Clara
2008
Writer
This acclaimed adaptation of Tchaikovsky's fabled masterwork from Graeme Murphy and the Australian Ballet tells the story of a famous Russian ballerin...

Les Contes D'Hoffmann
2008
Original Story
Among DVDs of "Hoffmann" currently available, this is the only one that even begins to stand comparison with the superlative Powell and Pressburger fi...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
2006
Original Story
Giancarlo Del Monaco's passionate and intelligent production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus creates a climactic kaleidoscope of deep and convincin...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
2004
Original Story
Live peformance from the Sferisterio Opera Festival, August 2004. Our edition has an Italian cast of exceptional quality, in which stand out the amaz...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
2003
Original Story
Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.

Hush!
2003
Book
The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniv...

The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet
2001
Writer
A re-staging of the Royal Ballet's 1985 production, with Anthony Dowell - this time as Drosselmeyer - and a new supporting cast. This Royal Ballet pro...

The Sandman
2000
Story
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but there'...

Coppélia (The Royal Ballet)
2000
Original Story
Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe she is his daughter. The mistake leads to intrigue ...

The IMAX Nutcracker
1997
Novel
This 37-minute 3-D Imax film adaptation from E.T.A. Hoffman's story is a straight narrative fantasy rather than a ballet. Little Clara receives a Chri...

Orphée aux Enfers
1997
Original Story
Orphée aux Enfers, Offenbach's riotous parody of the dissipations of French life in the Second Empire, fairly gallops past in this 1997 Herbert Wernic...

The Sandman
1993
Story
Daniel and Clara are on a vacation in Italy. In the form of the mysterious "Sandman" Coppola, a figure from Daniel's childhood, returns to haunt him, ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
1993
Original Story
Live performance from the Opéra National de Lyon.

The Nutcracker: A Christmas Story
1992
Novel
The storm is really getting bad out there. Come on in and sit by the fire, enjoy the tree, make yourself a hot cup of Cocoa and enjoy the classic tale...

The Sandman
1991
Story
A young child and his mother face a visit from the terrifying sandman.

The Nutcracker Prince
1990
Story
After young Clara receives a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas gift, she dreams about a fantastical battle between her Nutcracker Prince and the evil M...

The Australian Ballet: Coppélia
1990
Story
This delightful ballet tells the story of Dr Coppelius, an eccentric toymaker, who attempts to bring life to his beautiful doll Coppélia. He is foile...

The Nutcracker
1989
Story
The Bolshoi's acclaimed 80s production of Tchaikovsky's Holiday classic.

The Death of Magister Coppelius
1988
Author
Based on the fairy tales by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.
Les Contes d'Hoffmann
1988
Original Story
Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for Neil Sh...
Witches
1988
Story
Greek television horror movie from 1988.

Nutcracker: The Motion Picture
1986
Story
In this Pacific Northwest Ballet performance, it is Christmas Eve and festivities are underway. Clara is excited when her godfather arrives with a bag...

Cardillac
1985
Original Story
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and th...

Zauber um Zinnober
1983
Novel
The magician of the court feels offended by princely arbitrariness and senses for revenge. For this, cinnabar alias "Klein Zaches", a misguided being,...

Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober
1982
Original Story

Vampirismus
1982
Novel
A Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any ide...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
1981
Original Story
Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves - the doll-like Olympia, the hig...

The Sandman
1981
Short Story
A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounter...

Nutcracker. Anniversary Evening of Ballet Legend Galina Ulanova
1980
Author
Anniversary evening of the legend of the Soviet ballet, People's Artist of the USSR Galina Ulanova. It is dedicated to the actress' 70th anniversary a...

Coppélia
1979
Original Story
With music by Delibes, Frantz the photographer is trapped by the terrible Dr. Coppelius who intends to use him in his experiments to bring to life the...

Nutcracker Fantasy
1979
Original Story
Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet, "The Nutcracker", Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a stop-m...

Nutcracker
1978
Author
On Christmas Eve, Marie receives an enchanted toy as a gift from her uncle Albert. At night, it comes to life and engages in an unequal battle with th...

Die Elixiere des Teufels
1976
Novel
Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides ...
Das Fräulein von Scuderi
1976
Novel

The Devil's Elixirs
1973
Novel
Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and de...

Nutcracker
1973
Story
A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.

The Paradise Garden
1970
Original Story
A German Romantic diplom film from HFF München after E.T.A.Hoffmann. The film screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1975.

Cardillac
1970
Novel
The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.

The Nutcracker
1967
Novel
On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larg...

The Nutcracker
1964
Characters
A one-hour version of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, with a somewhat revised storyline reminiscent of "The Wizard of Oz".

The Nutcracker
1958
Original Story
Christmas presentation of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90, featuring Tchaikovsky's ballet performed by the New York City Ballet, choreographed...

The Young Woman of Scuderi
1955
Story
Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, Kin...

The Tales of Hoffmann
1951
Story
A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is rea...

Angela
1951
Original Story
A woman marries a gambler, thinking she could straighten him up, but he loses all their assets, even their own house, and tries to commit suicide. But...

The Lost Shoe
1923
Story
One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up b...

The Tales of Hoffmann
1923
Story
"The Tales of Hoffmann" - The story of the poet Hoffmann, who falls in love with a mechanical doll, loses his mirror image in Venice and finally liber...

The Doll
1919
Story
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry ...

Tales of Hoffmann
1916
Story
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 ...

San Francisco Ballet - The Nutcracker
N/A
Writer
This production of the famous ballet has been reset to take place during the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair. From the lovely Waltz of the Flowers to ...
The Sandman
N/A
Novel
THE SANDMAN tells the story of Nathan, a young student in the city who struggles to forget his childhood trauma at the hands of the serial killer dubb...