Hoffmaniada

Hoffmaniada (2018)

Гофманиада

Based around three of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tales ("Klein Zaches," "The Golden Pot" and "The Sandman"), with the main character being Hoffmann himself, this stop-motion fantasia focuses on the duality between the imaginative universe of his writings and his real-life profession as a government clerk.

Date of release
2018-10-11
TMDB
4.2 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 13m
Genres
Animation
Director
Stanislav Sokolov

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: RUB 2.6M

Hoffmaniada is a 2018 Russian stop motion-animated feature film from Soyuzmultfilm. The film is one of the first full-length puppet animated film in the recent history of the animation studio. The concept and the art design was done by Mikhail Shemyakin and is edited by Stanislav Sokolov and Veronika Pavlovskaya, written by Sokolov and Viktor Slavkin, and directed by Sokolov.

Production

In November 2006, a preliminary twenty minute exhibition was held in Petersburg House of Cinema, featuring the main cast of about twenty puppets. Each puppet took no less than a month to make. The full film will have over 150 puppets, some of which will appear on the screen for only a few seconds. In the spring of 2008, a group of puppeteers created the dolls first before the script was made.

In 2008, after the completion of the sketches for the images of cartoon characters, the next stage in the production of dolls and filming process began. Initial reaction kept referencing the similarity of facial expressions between the puppet Hoffmann and director Stanislav Sokolov. A report from 1 September 2010 showed that work was still ongoing.

The film was intended as a wide release film of 78 minutes within the scope of ambition in context of the days of insolvency in 2001. A premiere at the Petersburg House of Cinema was held in 2006 despite the constrained budget. The animators then once thought of getting financial assistance from the West. In a 6 September 2010 interview, Shemyakin said that if funding were given, the film would be finished in a year and a half.

The studio was also battling the aftermath of the economic downturn bought by the Soviet Union collapse in 1991. In 1998, the ruble faced devaluation that bought on financial debt to many companies that lasted to the turn of the 21st century. From the most acclaimed animation studio of Russia, in 2006 their studio built in 1936 was almost sold to real estate developers.

They believed only the policies of a strong president such as President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s could save the studio and their culture. According to Moscow Times report, "The Soyuzmultfilm studios are a piece of history and the embodiment of a belief that humor, art and the wacky, wily adventures of two-dimensional animals can cheer, sustain and even elevate or teach." In December 2013, Shemyakin said in an interview that despite the lac…

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