dir. Stanislav Sokolov
2018 // 1 hr 18 mins // Digital Projection
One of the most luminously beautiful and richly detailed stop-motion features in recent memory. Adapted from the writings of famed Gothic fantasy author E.T.A. Hoffman, the film weaves together the plots of three of his stories with the real-life drudgery of the writer's own life as a government clerk. Filled with operatic dreams, clockwork automatons, fire salamanders, witchcraft, love, magic, and the legendary city of Atlantis; Hoffmaniada is the first feature film in decades from legendary Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm.
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