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A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Animation, Fantasy, Comedy · 1h 16m
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.
Cast
Rudolf Pellar
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Trnka
- Screenplay
- Josef Kainar, Jiří Trnka
- Director of Photography
- Jiří Vojta
- Original Music Composer
- Václav Trojan
- Editor
- Hana Walachová
Details
- Original title
- Sen noci svatojánské
- Release date
- 1959-09-25
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha