A Midsummer's Night Dream Poster

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Starring: Rudolf Pellar

Writer: William Shakespeare, Josef Kainar, Jiří Trnka

Release Date:
September 25, 1959
Ratings:
7.1 / 10
Director:
Jiří Trnka
Companies:
Krátký film Praha – Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu Praha

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.