Bela B. plays a demonic optician in 40 minutes of pure German nightmare fuel.
Acting
Bela B.'s Coppelius drips menace through every lens adjustment.
Cinematography
Shadows swallow rooms whole; eyes are everywhere.
Production
Puppet Olympia's uncanny stillness will haunt your dreams.
Director
Andreas Dahn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Freud literally built his 'uncanny' essay around Hoffmann's original 1816 story—this adaptation carries 200 years of psychoanalytic baggage.
Bela B. (yes, from Die Ärzte) reportedly insisted on doing his own lens-polishing close-ups, calling them 'the most intimate violence.'
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