The Sandman - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduct alchemical experiments with his father – the latter dying as a consequence of one of these sessions – was none other than the Sandman, a mythical figure who was said to steal the eyes of children who refused to go to sleep. When a mysterious Italian salesman comes to town, Nathanael\'s suspicions are reawakened, pushing him to the brink of madness as extraordinary... Zobrazit více