The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 85% of the 79 1950s music movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
91 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael PowellWriter
- Emeric PressburgerWriter
- Michael PowellDirector
- Emeric PressburgerDirector
- Jacques OffenbachOriginal Music Composer
- Dennis ArundellWriter
Cast
- Moira ShearerStella / Olympia
- Ludmilla TchérinaGiulietta
- Pamela BrownNiklaus
- Léonide MassineSpalanzani / Schlemil / Franz
- Ann AyarsAntonia
- Robert HelpmannLindorf / Coppelius / Dapertutto / Dr. Miracle
- Frederick AshtonKleinsach / Cochenille
- Robert RounsevilleHoffmann
- Mogens WiethCrespel
- Lionel HarrisPitichinaccio
- Philip LeaverAndrés
- Meinhart MaurLuther
Stills
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Themes
operamusicalsurrealismbased on play or musicalanthologyballetautomatonsopranoprima ballerina