Film
A Midsummer's Night Dream
1959Directed by Jiří Trnka
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
About A Midsummer's Night Dream
- Animation
- Fantasy
- Comedy
Synopsis
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
- William Shakespeare
- Original title
- Sen noci svatojánské
