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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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1959 film by Jiří Trnka
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7.2The 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: 1959-09-2576 minDir: Jiří TrnkaAnimation, Fantasy, Comedy
Cast
- Rudolf Pellar as Narrator (voice)
Themes
- based on play or musical
- stop motion
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The Midsummer Night's Dream
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated film
- Genre
- puppet film
- Country of origin
- Czechoslovakia
- Original language
- Czech
- Based on
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Director
- Jiří Trnka
- Screenwriter
- William Shakespeare
- Composer
- Václav Trojan
- Duration
- 76
- FilmAffinity ID
- 188151
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- publication date
- 1959-01-01
- after a work by
- Josef Kainar
- described at URL
- www.filmovyprehled.cz/cs/film/398820/sen-noci-svatojanske
- title
- Sen noci svatojánské
- fabrication method
- stop-motion
- intended public
- adult
- art director
- Jiří Trnka
- form of creative work
- feature film
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