A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959
76 min
⭐ 7.1/10
18 votes
Overview
The first puppet film shot in CinemaScope. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.
Genres
Animation
Fantasy
Comedy
Production Countries
- Czechoslovakia
Spoken Languages
- Czech cs
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Cast
Rudolf Pellar
Narrator (voice)
Crew
Jiří Trnka
Director
Jiří Trnka
Screenplay
Josef Kainar
Screenplay
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