Animation / Fantasy / Comedy

A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Name: A Midsummer's Night Dream
Director: Jiří Trnka
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: 1959-09-25
Duration: 76 min
Rating: 7.2

7.2/ 1019591h 16mCS

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.

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Directed by Jiří Trnka

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Cast.

Rudolf Pellar

Narrator (voice)

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