Inexperienced student Hoffmann is manipulated into falling in love with a mechanical doll named Olympia. Young man of the world Hoffmann is then enslaved by Giulietta, a beautiful Venetian courtesan. The heart of mature poet Hoffmann is stolen by a lovely, consumptive singer, Antonia. Now the well-known composer sits in a tavern and tells three stories of his distant loves. Although more than 60 years have passed since its release, this highly acclaimed work by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, with a cast of world-class singers and dancers, remains an unsurpassed film adaptation of an opera, in this case a famed piece by Jacques Offenbach. This newly restored version of the film whose only available 16mm copy was once fought over by George A. Romero and Martin Scorsese – both fanatical admirers of the British-Hungarian creative duo – is an enchanting Technicolor feast and an extravagantly surreal glimpse into the culminating era of silent film.