This documentary's title is a play on words on the opera title "Tales of Hoffmann" by E.T.A. Hoffmann and libretto by Jules Barbier. [For filmed versions, see: Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1911); The Tales of Hoffmann (1951); Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) (1981); Some Tales of Hoffmann (1993) and Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1923); Les contes d'Hoffmann (2003) ]. Robert Helpmann himself appeared as Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto and Dr Miracle in The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).