A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
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.
- Released
- 1959-09-25
- Genres
- Animation, Fantasy, Comedy
- Runtime
- 76 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jiří Trnka, Josef Kainar, Jiří Trnka
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 from 20 votes
Cast
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