A Midsummer's Night Dream

1959 • 1h 16m • Animation, Fantasy, Comedy

7.2(20 votes)

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.

Director

Jiří Trnka

Writers

Josef Kainar, Jiří Trnka

Status

Released