A Midsummer's Night Dream

Name: A Midsummer's Night Dream
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Released: 1959
Duration: 76 min
Cast: Rudolf Pellar

1959

1h 16min

Animation

Comedy

Fantasy

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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.