A Midsummer's Night Dream
Sep 25 1959
•1h 16m
•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.
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Rudolf Pellar
Narrator (voice)
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