A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959 · 76 min · Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
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.
- Director
- Jiří Trnka
- Writers
- Josef Kainar, Jiří Trnka
- Released
- September 25, 1959
- Language
- Czech
Cast
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