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.

• Cinema Foundation of Russia
• Soyuzmultfilm
• Vladimir Koshevoy
• Vyacheslav Polunin
• Natalya Fisson
• Anvar Libabov
• Anna Artamonova
• Aleksey Petrenko
• Pavel Lyubimtsev
• Aleksandr Shirvindt